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  • AJ Ashton
    Aug 19, 2010
    4 comments
    Fast and Simple Color Customization with the World Glass Map Tileset
    Transparent elements leave the color decision to you, and with textures there are infinite design possibilities
    Today on Mapbox.com we released a new world map tileset - World Glass. The main goal and unique feature of this map is fast and simple color customization. With its use of 24-bit PNG transparency, users can make the map fit well with the rest of...
  • Justin Miller
    Aug 12, 2010
    KML Parsing Library Released for Apple's iOS Platform
    Making KML simple for the iPad
    I've been working this summer with the MapBox team on bringing interactive mapping to the iPad (expect another post soon about this work :-) ). In addition to being able to package MapBox tile sets as base layer maps, we need to be able to visualize...
  • Tom MacWright
    Jul 26, 2010
    1 comment
    Version 2 of Maps on a Stick: Technical Details
    Closed beta testing for offline mapping
    Today we start closed beta testing of Maps on a Stick v.2, an application for making interactive maps and visualizations offline. This version is thoroughly rethought to make the application more flexible and efficient. For example, No more...
  • Ian Cairns
    Jul 20, 2010
    MapBox on Apps.gov
    Federal agencies can now easily start using free custom designed maps
    MapBox is now an approved software-as-a-service provider on Apps.gov. All federal agencies can freely use MapBox map tiles and only need to go to Apps.gov and enroll to get started. (Direct links aren't supported, look under "Social Media Apps"...
  • Ian Cairns
    Jul 1, 2010
    4 comments
    Opening Up Data on International Public Health: Center for Health Market Innovations
    Mapping the global public health marketplace
    Results for Development just launched the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI), a project that opens up data on and maps public health projects happening around the world. This portal represents an important open data advance for the global...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jun 16, 2010
    2 comments
    TileMill 2.0 Wins Knight News Challenge Grant to Improve Hyper Local Mapping in Washington, DC
    Making it easier to build beautiful maps with open geo data
    The Knight Foundation just announced that MapBox's TileMill, our toolkit for rendering beautiful map tiles, is a Knight News Challenge winner! This is key funding that will turn TileMill into TileMill 2.0, allowing us to incorporate feedback and...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Apr 20, 2010
    15 comments
    Data.WorldBank.org Launched Today on Drupal
    This is just the start of the World Bank's open data initiative
    Signaling the most aggressive open data push in the international development community to date, World Bank President Robert Zoellick launched Data.WorldBank.org this morning ahead of the organization's spring meeting. All of the World Bank's 2,000...
  • AJ Ashton
    Apr 13, 2010
    4 comments
    Designing Desaturated and Multilingual Iraq Maps
    Custom, multilingual tile set of Iraq now available on MapBox
    We just finished a custom tile set for UNICEF's "An Iraq Fit For Children" campaign. This campaign surveyed hundreds of Iraqi children to learn how they feel about themselves, their communities, and the future of their country. Part of the website...
  • Tom MacWright
    Apr 6, 2010
    The Next TileMill: Making a Simpler Map-Building Workflow
    With a focus on usability, error handling, and platform independence
    Since we released the alpha version of TileMill - a toolkit for rendering map tiles on the Amazon EC2 cloud - back in October, we've received a lot of feedback and ideas from its early adopters. In this post, I wanted to share with you where we see...
  • AJ Ashton
    Mar 23, 2010
    Speeding up OpenStreetMap-based Map Development with OSM Bright Template
    A useful starting point for quickly developing Cascadenik stylesheets with an "out-of-the-box" OpenStreetMap database
    Over the past couple of weeks I've developed a Cascadenik template for maps based on OpenStreetMap data. The source is now available on Github under a BSD-style license, along with other map styles we have released. OpenStreetMap's database is the...