Olá Rio! High resolution Olympic preview

Molly Lloyd
Mon, 16 May 2016 07:30:00 -0400

Brazil’s preparations for this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have taken six years, $11.1 billion, and transformed parts of the city. High-resolution satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe is now available in Mapbox Satellite and it reveals venues under construction, neighborhoods reshaped, and environmental impacts from depolluted waterways to a golf course carved from a nature preserve.

Click through the map below to take an Olympic tour.

A full-screen version is also available.

The imagery, building footprints, and other data layers are available as part of DigitalGlobe’s Rio Olympics package. Follow @DigitalGlobe to learn more. Stay tuned for more Olympic maps from Mapbox, and tweet at me for tips on combining imagery and vector data with Mapbox Studio and Mapbox GL JS.