Hi! I'm @amyleew.
designer, programmer, and navigator @mapbox

Hi! I'm @mikel.
programmer and open source advocate @mapbox

Mapbox is a mapping platform for developers.

Change the way people move around cites and understand our planet.

Provide the building blocks to integrate location into any mobile or online application.

Smooth, fast and designed vector maps that render data in real-time.

Mobile SDKs and JavaScript APIs to bring your map and data online.

Search and geocoding APIs that transform addresses into coordinates or vice versa.

Directions APIs that provide turn by turn directions for drivers, walkers, and cyclists.

High-resolution satellite imagery and tools to transform your own drone or satellite imagery onto a map.

Open source

We build our product with open source parts, work in the open, and release as much code as possible

We do this because we believe that it's the right thing for people, technology, and business

Open source communities are cooperative spaces for companies, media, governments, NGOs, schools, neighborhoods...

A global project working at local scale for personal hobbies to critical maps

OpenStreetMap drives our cartography and APIs

Narrative mapping

Traditional

• Why America's schools have a money problem — NPR
• Where is the lead exposure risk in your community? — Vox Media

• Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek — NY Times
• Visualizing the Shrinking Sea Ice — The Atlantic

Experimental

• Data-driven styling for live earthquake tracking — Mapbox
• Visualizing Eurovision Shazam tags with Mapbox GL — Mapbox
• Analyzing 579,677 properties in Philadelphia — Mapbox

Anatomy of
web map

Leveraging the Mapbox stack

Recommended reading

• How Mapbox works
• Media examples leveraging Mapbox
• Mapbox vector maps (ready to use)
• Mapbox Studio: dataset editor (data)
• Mapbox Streets vector tile source guide (data)
• Mapbox Studio: style editor (design)
• Mapbox help: Design a map (design)
• Designing the Blueprint map in Mapbox Studio (design)
• Designing the whaam! style in Mapbox Studio (design)
• Mapbox developer tools (interactivity)
• Mapbox GL JS: API (interactivity)
• Mapbox GL JS: Examples (interactivity)

thank you

• @amyleew — designer/cartographer
• @mikel — mapper/coder/fellow