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Mapbox is the location data platform for mobile and web applications. We're changing the way people move around cities and explore our world.
Mapbox
3y ago
By: Marena Brinkhurst
By making flood risk data freely available for all with FloodFactor.com, the non-profit First Street Foundation is equipping individuals and communities across the United States to better understand and prepare for flooding and a changing environment.
Revealing under-reported flood risks in San Francisco
Flooding is the most expensive type of natural disaster in the United States, costing over $1 trillion in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1980. While institutional real estate investors and insurers have had access to detailed property flood risk data for years, the majo ..read more
Mapbox
3y ago
Texas disenfranchises voters Isochrone analysis shows 2 million+ negatively impacted in Harris County
By: Alex Yule
With just weeks remaining to election day, Texas Governor Abbott reduced the number of ballot drop boxes across the state to one per county. The change reduces ballot drop-off locations from 12 to 1 in Harris County, which includes Houston and is the third-most populous county in the US with over 4.7 million people. Advocates for voting rights are now suing the state because the latest changes in Texas disenfranchise voters who already faced barriers to voting by forcin ..read more
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3y ago
Sharing Mapbox Movement data
By Mikel Maron
Mapbox is honored to be at the World Bank Annual Meetings to mark the importance of sharing data to solve tough problems (watch here). Through the Development Data Partnership, we’ve collaborated with economic development experts to improve access to health care during the pandemic in Senegal and Indonesia, prioritize infrastructure investments for the tourism sector in Sri Lanka, and determine the vulnerability of populations under COVID-19 lockdown across India. Inspired by these partnerships, we have released Mapbox Movement data from Ja ..read more
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3y ago
Admin 0 polygons with updated disputed boundaries and 4 different worldviews, made with MTS
By: Arun Ganesh
The collection of high resolution administrative level-0 country polygons in Mapbox Boundaries is now available to all designers and developers using the new version of Studio, for free. The individual country polygons include updates to major disputed areas and support of four different worldviews, making it easy to create accurate country level choropleths or style individual countries.
Covid Controls is using the new boundaries in Studio to visualize how countries are respo ..read more
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3y ago
Flexible invoice payments + pre-established invoicing workflows with third-party accounting vendors
By: Vishal Patel
Mapbox is now accepting two new payment methods — ACH and Bank Wire — as part of our new Monthly Invoicing (public beta), letting Finance teams manage payments from their secure company-approved payment methods of choice.
Monthly Invoicing provides a flexible alternative billing solution to lighten accounting workloads. No more wrangling with “no credit cards for vendor software” policies or jumping through hoops with the Finance team to expense charges made to persona ..read more
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3y ago
By: Christine Moloney
Epic Games is integrating Mapbox into its Unreal Engine as part of their HMI initiative to enable the next generation of infotainment and digital cockpit user experience — here’s a sneak peek.
The move to offer Unreal in an HMI-specific package brings the award-winning design features of the Unreal Engine to automotive, starting with GMC’s Hummer EV. These features enable developers to iterate on their vision faster and include version control, visual scripting via Blueprints, and direct access to the C++ codebase. With Mapbox, Unreal is incorporating map rendering a ..read more
Mapbox
3y ago
The world’s largest privacy-forward mobility data set built from 700 million MAUs
By: Kieran Gupta
Mapbox Movement is a living data set generated from 30+ billion daily location updates and drawn from an underlying data panel of over 700 million monthly active users of Mapbox-powered apps worldwide. This data set captures significant mobile device activity aggregated into geographic tiles of 100-meter resolution (approximately one city block) and various Mapbox boundaries. Use cases include retail analysis and site selection, disaster rapid response, POI busy hour tracking, and tran ..read more
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3y ago
By: Antonio Zugaldia
Our latest Navigation SDK (v1.0 Android + iOS) ships with an enhanced location engine to better guide drivers in dense urban environments with poor GPS signal and through complex maneuvers that traditionally make guidance confusing — such as sharp turns, narrow exits, and adjacent parallel roads. This new location engine continually filters and processes GPS signals and even extrapolates a driver’s current location when GPS signals are unavailable using dead reckoning algorithms, to avoid navigation interruptions. It provides high position accuracy, with low latency ..read more
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3y ago
Cost-effective scaling with distributed and parallelized processing
By: Young Hahn
Mapbox Tiling Service (MTS) allows the processing of massive sets of data into custom vector tilesets, continuously updating the maps as the data changes. MTS is now available in public beta to all Mapbox developers as a service for uploading source data with transformation rules called recipes.
Tilesets generated using MTS can then be styled in Studio and composited with any other vector tilesets.
Whether mapping 5G coverage, determining the effectiveness of an ad campaign per zip code, analyzing new ..read more
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3y ago
The Mapboxapi R package by Dr. Kyle Walker debuts at the #MusaMasterClass
By Ken Steif, Ph.D; Director, Master of Urban Spatial Analytics; University of Pennsylvania.
The Mapboxapi lets developers leverage navigation services including Directions, Isochrone, Matrix, and Optimization APIs for routing analyses into R. The package supports multiple Mapbox APIs, including the navigation services, to create analytical solutions that solve cutting-edge, real-time transportation, and logistics problems.
Dr. Kyle Walker, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Urban Studies at ..read more