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Stories by Mapbox on Medium
Company blog · mapbox.com/blog · on HN as bsudekumwebdata
Stories by Mapbox on Medium is the company blog at mapbox.com, writing about web and data. Since 2010, 273 different Hacker News readers have linked it 492 times, most often “MapBox: Creating custom maps in the cloud”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link Mapbox product and documentation pages as tools or alternatives for maps, vector tiles, styling and navigation APIs. One singles out a Mapbox post on Redux state management.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
APIs and SDKs for AI-powered maps, location search, turn-by-turn navigation, and geospatial data in mobile or web apps. Get started for free.
Most-linked posts?
- MapBox: Creating custom maps in the cloud11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2010-08-03
- Mapbox: location platform for developers and designers9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-03-03
- TileMill — an application for making beautiful maps8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-10-28
- /pricing/7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2016-09-13
- /tilemill/6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-10-16
- Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era5 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-12-09
- Mapbox Studio5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-08-22
- Drawing Antialiased Lines with OpenGL4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-06-10
- MapBox redesign4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-11-01
- /maps/streets/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-05-08
What Hacker News says?
Hi Zylepe! Disclosure, I work at Mapbox, but wanted to point you towards our Satellite Streets tiles which combine many different data sources (including DG), but also contain high-resolution flyover imagery in larger urban areas in the USA. https://www.mapbox.com/maps/satellite/ What did you use to calculate your $1k price/month estimate for your website?
Comment linking /maps/satellite/
on “Farewell, Google Maps”Submitted Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era as a story · 327 points
HN discussionOpenStreetMap shows street names by default: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ Also, Mapbox has a powerful map styling UI that lets you choose exactly what map elements to display at a given zoom level: https://www.mapbox.com/ We can basically build or contribute to alternatives that better suit our needs.
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on “Apple's New Map”Submitted TileMill — an application for making beautiful maps as a story · 311 points
HN discussionMapbox enables interactive storytelling using low-code template to help tell map-based stories https://www.mapbox.com/solutions/interactive-storytelling
Comment linking /solutions/interactive-storytelling
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?”Submitted Planes Landing in Beijing: Video from Space as a story · 278 points
HN discussionThe Isochrones [0] mentioned in the article include basically all the necessary information. I guess a capable GPU-shader programmer could easily render the distortion in real time. (Hint Hint Hacker News for a cool weekend project) [0] https://www.mapbox.com/bites/00156/#10/51.6840/-0.1480
Comment linking /bites/00156/
on “A new kind of map: it’s about time”Submitted Vector Tiles for MapBox Streets as a story · 270 points
HN discussionAccording to Mapbox Privacy Policy ( https://www.mapbox.com/privacy/ ), they collect a lot of data, including: (a) IP address, (b) device and browser information, (c) operating system, (d) the content of the request, (e) the date and time of the request, and (f) limited location and usage data.
Comment linking /privacy/
on “DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps”Submitted Mapbox GL for the Web as a story · 232 points
HN discussionI work at Mapbox. Not speaking officially for the company here (for that see https://www.mapbox.com/privacy/ ), but I can say it's definitely an internalized norm that in order to earn trust as a platform we need to be very careful with any user data we get. While user-generated location data does flow into updating our map, we are aggressive about anonymizing and aggregating that data as quickly as possible (includ…
Comment linking /privacy/
on “DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps”Submitted Introducing Mapbox GL as a story · 230 points
HN discussionYou can edit all of that with CartoCSS. OP made a great map, but Mapbox Studio really is ideal for a project like this. https://www.mapbox.com/guides/cartocss-in-studio/#studio
Comment linking /guides/cartocss-in-studio/
on “Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it”Submitted Large Investment in OpenStreetMap from Knight Foundation as a story · 229 points
HN discussionMapbox | ONSITE in Washington D.C. or Berlin, Germany | Systems Engineer - Directions | Full-Time | http://www.mapbox.com/ The Directions team at Mapbox is looking for someone to help grow our navigation platform infrastructure. We have a core group working on routing algorithms and traffic data analysis, and we need help growing the infrastructure that runs that code (we develop and make heavy use of http://project…
Comment linking /jobs/553439/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Rendering the world as a story · 221 points
HN discussionVector tiles that work with trackpads correctly. (try to use two fingers on a trackpad to zoom in, and compare that to https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/examples/ ). Also, the new faux-3d effect in the satellite imagery is really irritating.
Comment linking /mapbox-gl-js/examples/
on “Google’s look, evolved”Submitted Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap as a story · 171 points
HN discussionIf you folks are enjoying this but want more flexibility, check out Mapbox - it lets you define fully custom styles for OpenStreetMap maps and download them as high res images or embed them in apps (basically this but more flexible and a bit harder to use). https://www.mapbox.com/
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on “City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once”Submitted Making Clouds Go Away on MapBox Satellite as a story · 140 points
HN discussionThis already exists with Unity via Mapbox - https://www.mapbox.com/unity/
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on “Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data”Submitted A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD as a story · 130 points
HN discussionGlad to see Leaflet is still being developed. AFAICT, the main developer was MapBox, who's now using a WebGL based stack instead of Leaflet [1]. 1: https://www.mapbox.com/gallery/
Comment linking /gallery/
on “Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps”Submitted A clean point-of-interest icon set for web cartography as a story · 130 points
HN discussionLooks like it does support raster tiles: https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/map-tiles/
Comment linking /mapbox-gl-js/example/map-tiles/
on “Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps”Submitted A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon as a story · 119 points
HN discussionyou can create a somewhat similar experience with mapbox api https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/scroll-fly-to/
Comment linking /mapbox-gl-js/example/scroll-fly-to/
on “How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?”Submitted Offline mobile maps from Mapbox as a story · 103 points
HN discussionFor web map tiles (millions of tiny PNGs), everyone who's anyone stores their tiles in sqlite rather than on disk: https://www.mapbox.com/help/an-open-platform/#mbtiles
Comment linking /help/an-open-platform/
on “SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem”Submitted Sketchy Maps with Geometry Smoothing as a story · 97 points
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