Introducing Atlas Search
Add the power of context to on-premises applications
By: Alex Ulsh
Starting today, you can use forward and reverse geocoding with Mapbox Atlas Search, our latest feature for Mapbox Atlas. Atlas lets you deploy and run Mapbox tools on-premises, whether on a physical server or your private cloud, from air gapped to publicly accessible networks. It’s the same experience you expect from the Mapbox platform — on your infrastructure.
With Atlas Search, we’re bringing offline global address level geocoding to Atlas, allowing you to turn location text into coordinates and coordinates into named locations.
Atlas Search brings context to your location data. Add geocoding to your offline applications using Mapbox GL JS and the Maps SDKs for iOS, Android, Qt, or Unity. Create a better user experience with location search instead of manually panning or zooming in and out of the map. Just like Search on Mapbox.com, Atlas Search ships with autocomplete and fuzzy search, returning better search results even with incomplete or misspelled queries. It can do this totally offline.
Hivemapper builds 3D maps using 2D video and computer vision for live change detection. Their platform uses Atlas Search to enable their customers to query videos on air gapped networks:
“With Atlas Search and Mapbox GL JS, we can offer our on-premise customers the same global address level geocoding capabilities of Mapbox.com, but totally offline.“ — Ariel Seidman, CEO of Hivemapper
Atlas Search powers a variety of other use cases. For example, you can develop an asset tracking solution on an air gapped network using sensitive sensor data. Try geotagging content datasets like videos or images to visualize them on the map and drill down to the address level. Build a dynamic resource locator to search and display assets based on bounding boxes or proximity to a given address. Automatically zoom and pan to a given region in offline Studio to see how design affects road networks, rivers, building footprints, and more.
Ready to start building offline? Take a look at the Atlas Search documentation and get in touch with our team to learn how you can start a free trial of Atlas Search. If you’re an existing customer, reach out to your Customer Success manager and they’ll get you set up.
