Up to now, Mapbox has made a name for itself as a provider of highly detailed maps that are able to call out different kinds of detail from what you might get in a typical native map from Google ...

So Gundersen and his team mashed up their own maps using Mapbox, a tool they had started to build a year before. Nine years later, more than 350 million people touch a Mapbox visualization every ...

MapBox Inc. has big ambitions to rival Google Maps with an open-source solution. The company of about 35 staff may be small, but it has just raised $10 million in Series A funding from Foundry Group.

Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view. In February 2013, imagery specialist Charlie Loyd was looking for a job. He'd been working ...

If you’re an iOS developer that uses maps in your app, but you’re unsatisfied with the level of customization that Apple’s MapKit allows, you’ll be excited by the MapBox news today.

MapQuest said today the Mapbox partnership would be used to bring “fully adaptable, fast-loading, and responsive maps” to MapQuest. It also confirmed a “significant number” of product ...

(Reuters) - Mapping startup Mapbox Inc said on Wednesday it is teaming up with Microsoft Corp, Intel Corp and Softbank Group Corp's ARM Holdings chip unit to deepen its push into providing maps ...

As one of the map's authors, Bobby Sudekum, writes on the Mapbox blog, it's a work in progress. They've made the data they collected available for anyone to use, and if you know of other no-fly ...

Mapbox is a D.C.-based company that uses open-source data to create precise, customizable maps. Sounds like a potential competitor for companies with similar sounding names, like MapQuest. And yet, ...

In a blog post, the company explains that it has done away with using the Google Maps API in favor of OpenStreetMaps on Foursquare.com, given a face via MapBox. “When we initially began looking ...