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A commercial mapping platform with vector tiles and heavy styling control. Next to Leaflet it is the hosted, batteries-included option; Leaflet is the small open-source library you point at whichever tiles you like.
Mapbox is a good alternative to Google Maps, which is very expensive. I have not had much chance to use it at work, but I have written extensively about it on JWS News.
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Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to Mapbox.
Back in January, I promised that a future post would cover how to go from a street address to latitude / longitude coordinates. Previously, we have covered how to get the user’s street address, using navigator.geolocation and MapQuest and more recently, we covered converting add…
Earlier this year, we looked at Mapbox and how to use it to show a location on a map. I figured that now that we have a listing of park locations, it is time to look at mapping them. This might be a fairly brief post since everything that we are doing here has been…
One of the things that I tried to add to my website, last summer was a map that showed what countries I had visited. I was never able to come up with a solution that I really liked but this week’s little experiment might fit the need. You might remember from our previous Mapbox…
Two weeks ago, we looked at how to embed a Mapbox map on a website. I figured that this time, we would look at how to mark a location on a map. We are going to look at two methods: dropping a pin on a map to show a location and drawing a shape to…
So, you want to add a map to your website but you don’t want to (or can’t) use Google Maps? Luckily, you have a few options. The one that we are looking at today is Mapbox (which uses OpenStreetMap data). Mapbox has the benefit of a generous free tier (unlike Google Maps), and i…
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Short posts about Mapbox, matched by topic hashtags.
