MapBox Plugin for Wordpress

By Jeff Miccolis

The new MapBox plugin for Wordpress makes it quick and easy to embed maps from MapBox Hosting into a Wordpress site. Whether you design your own custom maps in TileMill and host them with our easy to use map hosting service, or use…

How Interactivity Works with UTFGrid

By Konstantin Käfer

Adding interactivity to millions of objects on a map requires some tricks. Tom stunningly visualized the inner workings of UTFGrid, an encoding scheme that efficiently encodes interactivity data for map tiles that has…

How To Add Images to Maps with TileMill’s SVG Support

By Ian Villeda

Image support in TileMill, our open source map design tool, allows you to add custom SVG markers for point data, letting you create unique aesthetics on maps like the one we made on our homepage…

MBTiles Integration for Custom, Offline Maps on the iPhone and iPad

By Justin Miller

With the MBTiles example app for the iPhone, we released some powerful open source code that I’d like to discuss in this post. MBTiles is an open, flexible format for…

Easey: Smooth Transitions for Web Maps

By Tom MacWright

Easey is a library that lets you
make smooth transitions between places
and zoom levels on maps in Modest Maps, a minimal, fast web map API. Instead of just
jumping from place to place immediately with map.setCenter()…

New Terrain Baselayer Maps Available on MapBox

By AJ Ashton
 We’ve added eight new public baselayer maps to MapBox.com based on popular raster datasets. Our data sources are Natural Earth, which provides a bright, clean, illustrative style of map, and NASA’s Blue Marble imagery, which is…

Enhancing Map Interactivity with Google Charts

By Nate Smith

Since May TileMill — our open source map design studio — has supported putting interactive popups on maps. Having an interactive space like this creates endless possibilities for visualizing your data and…

Modest Maps + Leaflet: New Choices for Web APIs

By Tom MacWright

The web map API space has flourished in the last few months, and it has exciting ramifications for TileMill users and everyone else. Our TileMill and TileStream projects focus on custom map tile design…

Inside the TileMill Mac OS X App

By Konstantin Käfer

One of the new features in the latest TileMill release is the new TileMill Mac OS X app, which makes creating maps easier than ever. In this post, I’ll discuss quickly what the app does and then talk about the process of…

Map of Washington, DC Neighborhoods Available on MapBox

By Tristen Brown

We just released a new map tileset of Washington, DC called DC Bright on MapBox.com. This map focuses on the city’s neighborhoods, showing their boundaries while letting you drill down to see…