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 ...

The company behind that layer, Mapbox, just got much better maps. On Wednesday, the four-year-old startup announced the acquisition of three million square kilometers of satellite imagery from ...

Unfortunately, MapBox doesn’t allow you to export their data as KML into Google Earth. Perhaps with this new imagery system there will be new ways to download and use it, but time will tell.

With the new MapBox Satellite service, users will be able to incorporate DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution imagery as their base layer for maps they are building. MapBox is a provider of open ...

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 ...

Boundless, an open source geographic information systems (GIS) company, has announced a new partnership with Mapbox, a real-time location and mapping platform for developers. The partnership enables ...

The iD editor represents the most dramatic facelift for OpenStreetMap since the project first started back in 2004. Imagine Wikipedia’s complicated, esoteric interface for editors being ...

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 ...

Toyota and Lexus are now utilizing Mapbox‘s technology to deliver navigation features. Mapbox’s maps software development kit incorporates a map design that complements Toyota’s multimedia system, ...

April 23 (Reuters) - Mapbox, a location data services provider, is in talks to go public through a merger with a blank-check firm backed by SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), opens new tab in a deal ...