Mapbox
San Francisco, California , Washington, D.C. U.S. | |
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Revenue | $100 million (2019)[1] |
Number of employees | 650+[2] |
Website | mapbox |
Mapbox is an American provider of custom
By 2020, Mapbox switched to a proprietary software license for most of the software it previously maintained as open source.[4] As of October 2020, Mapbox had a valuation of $1 billion.[5]
History
The startup
Early work on OpenStreetMap tools, including the iD editor, was funded by a $575,000 grant from the Knight Foundation.[8]
On July 11, 2016,
In October 2017,
In January 2018, Mapbox acquired the team behind the open-source routing engine Valhalla.[14]
In December 2020, Mapbox released the second version of their JavaScript library for online display of maps, Mapbox GL JS. Previously open source code under a BSD license, the new version switched to proprietary licensing.[15][4] This resulted in a fork of the open source code, MapLibre GL, and initiation of the MapLibre project.
In March 2021, the company appointed a new chief executive officer, Peter Sirota, formerly of
In June 2021, workers at Mapbox announced that a majority of US-based employees had signed and submitted union authorization cards to the National Labor Relations Board in order to be represented by the Communication Workers of America, through CODE-CWA.[18][19] Mapbox declined to voluntarily recognize the union, requesting an election be held in addition to the card check.[20] The election, conducted the following August, resulted in 123 votes against versus 81 in favor of forming a union.[21]
On June 14, 2022, the NLRB issued a complaint against Mapbox, citing coercive actions, like threats and surveillance, and the firing of union organizers.[22][23] Shortly after, an article was published describing the Union busting tactics used at Mapbox.[24] A court date was set for October 3, 2022, however a settlement agreement was ultimately reached.[25]
Data sources and technology
The data is taken from open data sources, such as OpenStreetMap and NASA, and from purchased proprietary data sources, such as DigitalGlobe.[26][27] The technology is based on Node.js,[28] Mapnik, GDAL, and Leaflet.
Mapbox uses anonymized data from telemetry pings, such as
See also
- TomTom
- ArcGIS
- HERE Maps
- Google Maps
- OpenStreetMap
- QGIS
References
- ^ "The Right Direction: How Mapbox is Winning over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance". Forbes.
- ^ "Our Team". Mapbox. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ^ a b c "The New Cartographers". The Washington Post. 22 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016.
- ^ a b "Mapbox and Morrison". Paul Ramsey. 2020-12-09. Retrieved 2023-02-18.
- The Information (company).
- ^ Lomas, Natasha (16 October 2013). "Mapbox Closes $10M Series A From Foundry Group To Build The Future Of Interactive, Mobile Maps". TechCrunch. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (17 June 2015). "Mapbox Raises $52.6M Led By DFJ To Be The "Map Layer" For All Apps". Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ^ Franzen, Carl (21 September 2012). "Mapbox Aims For Open Source, Digital Map Revolution". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ "GNOME Maps and the tile problem". 2016-07-27.
- ^ Mattias Bengtsson. "Tiles and Mapbox".
- ^ "Bug 764841 – Stop Using MapQuest Tile Server".
- Wall Street Journal. New York City, New York, United States. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ "Mapbox acquires neural network startup Mapdata to help it expand into AR maps". TechCrunch. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "Mapbox makes another acquisition to bolster its navigation toolkits". TechCrunch. 4 January 2018. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
- ^ "Update mapbox-gl-js v2 license · mapbox/Mapbox-gl-js@85f124d". GitHub.
- ^ "Peter Sirota, CEO of Mapbox". 2021-03-01.
- ^ "SoftBank-Backed Mapbox Names New CEO to Go After Carmakers". Bloomberg.com. 2021-03-01. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ^ Ford, Brody (June 15, 2021). "Mapbox Faces Union Drive as Labor Organizers Extend Push in Tech". Bloomberg. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
- ^ Kramer, Anna (15 June 2021). "Mapbox employees have unionized, adding another union to CWA's organizing push". Protocol. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- ^ Love, Julia (August 5, 2021). "Silicon Valley workers vote down union at SoftBank-backed Mapbox". Reuters. Retrieved October 4, 2023.
- ^ "Union Drive at SoftBank-Backed Mapbox Fails at the Ballot Box". Bloomberg.com. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ^ "Mapbox, Case Number: 20-CA-283393". 14 June 2022.
- ^ "Mapbox sued by labor regulators for firing union organizers". 15 June 2022.
- ^ "The real reasons Big Tech hates unions". 15 June 2022.
- ^ "Mapbox, Case Number: 20-CA-283393". 28 Nov 2022.
- ^ A Cloudless Atlas — How Mapbox Aims to Make the World’s ‘Most Beautiful Map’, Wired, 14 May 2013
- ^ "Map Data: Stick a Pin in It". The Economist. 4 April 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ Nugent, Dave. "Node.js Future & Drupal". Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ Barth, Alex (29 June 2017). "You may just have updated the map with your RunKeeper route".
- ^ "mapbox/mapping". GitHub.
External links
- Official website
- Mapbox Streets, a global map with street level detail
- Mapbox Outdoors, a high-level topographic and bathymetric map
- Earthquake Risk Zones, Earthquake risks mapped against active USAID projects in the pacific rim region.