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.

The impending sale of Nokia’s Here mapping division has put a sharp focus on the role that location and maps in particular are playing in the mobile world. And while we are seeing a number of big ...

Mapbox, the OpenStreetMap-based mapping platform that lets app developers incorporate maps into any app, is adding another feature to better compete against the likes of Google Maps, ESRI and Nokia ...

The magical Marauder's Map that can reveal people's locations, imagined by JK Rowling in her Harry Potter novels, is fast becoming reality as cartography undergoes radical changes that are altering ...

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 on ...

Eric Gundersen sipped tea and haggled for maps as he sat in the basement of a government office in Kabul. A tattooed, fast-talking American with perennial stubble, Gundersen was running an 18-person ...

Open-source software is not a new concept, but it remains a revolutionary one. We’ve seen it rise steadily over the years with programs like Mozilla Firefox and Wikipedia, built-on the backs of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mapbox just updated the entire world with fresh satellite imagery, totaling 135,000,000 km² of satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Mapbox, the location technology platform, today announced that Tripadvisor has adopted Mapbox for its redesigned 'traveler-first' map experience on web and ...

开源地图服务 MapBox 获得 1000 万美元投资，欲挑战 Google Maps | 通过使用开源数据和技术，MapBox 表示可以提供更及时的更新，更精确的服务和更高的性价比。投资人和公司高层希望可以以 iTunes 式风格出售服务。用户可以浏览和购买特定地图以及数据包。 提供地图 ...