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The iD editor makes adding features to OpenStreetMap as easy as tracing on the map. But background imagery doesn’t always match up perfectly with the real world. Camera distortions, atmospheric...

OpenStreetMap iD OpenStreetMap 101

Data & OpenStreetMap

Mapping highway exit numbers on OpenStreetMap

May 06 2016

by Oindrila Gupta

Exit numbers are an essential part of guidance in navigation systems. To reach your desired destination, your navigation system should be able to guide you to the correct exit when...

JOSM mapping navigation Mapillary Bangalore

Map Design

Introducing data-driven styling in Mapbox GL JS

May 04 2016

by Lucas Wojciechowski

Today we’re introducing data-driven styling capabilities in Mapbox GL JS with property functions. Property functions allow you to style map...

cartography design GL JS GL

Data & OpenStreetMap

Mapping complex features in JOSM using relations

May 04 2016

by Ruth Maben

Relations are one of the more advanced feature types to map in OpenStreetMap. Most geographic features in OpenStreetMap are represented either by points (called nodes in OpenStreetMap terminology – for...

OpenStreetMap JOSM OpenStreetMap 101

Developer Tools

Fast geodesic approximations with Cheap Ruler

May 03 2016

by Vladimir Agafonkin

Geodesic calculations are an important building block of many geospatial applications. Examples include finding distance between two locations, length of a road, direction of a road segment, area of a...

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Events

Come hang with us at FOSS4GNA this week!

May 02 2016

by Lyzi Diamond

We’re in Raleigh this week for FOSS4G NA, and we are so excited to hang out and chat Mapbox with friends both old and new. Be sure to come check...

FOSS4GNA

Developer Tools

New Analytics API for fetching your usage stats

Apr 29 2016

by Mick Thompson

We’ve launched the Analytics API, an API that Premium and Enterprise customers can use to programmatically check Mapbox usage. You can request usage by account as a whole or, if...

Analytics API analytics

News

Welcome Justin Van Etten!

Apr 29 2016

by Michael Steffen

Justin Van Etten is joining Mapbox! As Mapbox’s first commercial counsel, Justin is jumping in with our business team to close sales and wrangle data licenses. Justin will be building...

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map design

Create custom map icon sets with the Maki icon editor

Apr 29 2016

by Saman Bemel Benrud

The latest version of the Maki comes with an icon set editor for customizing and organizing large icon sets. A new way to edit icons To make it easier and...

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map design

Introducing Maki 3

Apr 28 2016

by Nathaniel Slaughter

We just released a new version of Maki, our open source map icon set. Maki 3 includes 114 icons, plus...

Maki design open source

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Better OpenStreetMap data with iD’s new imagery offset tool

Mapping highway exit numbers on OpenStreetMap

Introducing data-driven styling in Mapbox GL JS

May 04 2016

Mapping complex features in JOSM using relations

Fast geodesic approximations with Cheap Ruler

Come hang with us at FOSS4GNA this week!

New Analytics API for fetching your usage stats

Welcome Justin Van Etten!

Create custom map icon sets with the Maki icon editor

Introducing Maki 3

Apr 28 2016

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