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Developers love Mapbox's customizable, plug-and-play maps, which power apps like Snapchat and the Weather Channel. Now the startup needs to figure out how to compete with Google in the race to ...
Mapbox, a startup that provides developers with customizable maps, thinks it has a shot to become a big player here. The startup is looking to partner with the auto industry to integrate its maps ...
Google Maps may dominate the digital mapping space, but open-source mapping is coming up the rear with startup company MapBox is leading the way.
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.
It is launching today for iOS, and, in the words of Mapbox’s CEO Eric Gundersen, “The APIs are an exact match with (Apple’s) Mapkit, making it dead easy to switch.” He calls iOS Mapbox’s ...
MapBox Aims For Open Source, Digital Map Revolution Screengrab of a MapBox view of OpenStreetMap, which MapBox is seeking to improve.
Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view.
Two weeks after announcing $164 million in funding, mapping data startup Mapbox has made an acquisition to help build out its next steps into autonomous driving and other applications that it ...
Mapbox does not make a mapping app itself. It instead competes against Alphabet Inc's Google Maps and HERE Technologies, the map firm owned by a group of companies, to provide the underlying maps ...