What’s New | July 2019
Product Updates
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This month… new ways to build with Vision SDK, stand-alone Mapbox Traffic Data, +2M new boundaries, Studio improvements based on your feedback, and changelog.
🌱 What’s New
Mapbox Vision SDK is now in public beta
Developers around the world can build immersive navigation experiences with augmented reality, interpret signs and driving conditions on-the-fly, customize safety alerts, and monitor driver performance. Unlock a new dimension of navigation experiences for your users — all you need to get started is your Mapbox account.
Millions of new boundaries in Mapbox Boundaries
Our latest Mapbox Boundaries release includes more than 2 million new boundaries and richer supporting data, on top of core capabilities like precision edge-matched polygons, vector-based tile rendering, and localized world views. Mapbox Boundaries powers data-driven problem solving across industries, like logistics tracking with geofencing for smart notifications, and data visualizations of refugee migration patterns or trends in entertainment and sporting events. Also available in MicroStrategy and Tableau.
Tell your Boss: Traffic Data works with OpenLR or OSRM
Need stand-alone traffic data for your own custom routing engine or business intelligence platform? Mapbox Traffic Data is fully compatible with Here and TomTom maps via OpenLR linear referencing, and it integrates with routing engines like Graphhopper and OSRM with native matching to OpenStreeMap node-pair IDs. Mapbox Traffic Data is compiled from more than half a billion live moving global sensors, and is verified and benchmarked by AI. Learn more.
Mapbox Studio’s new look (and new features!)
We’ve launched updates to Mapbox Studio to help our users collaborate and ship better maps — even faster. Improvements include highly requested features like draft mode, custom monochrome style creator, and a brand new UI. Start building in Studio now.
📦 New Solutions
Asset Tracking
Mapbox can provide you with all the necessary services to build a robust, scalable asset tracking solution to monitor real-time locations of fleets, shipments, or pets. Read our White Paper: How to set up an Asset Tracking architecture
Alteryx Modules
As part of the Alter Everything movement, we’re put three new Alteryx Modules into public beta: Search, Isochrones, and Spatial Lookup (powered by Mapbox Boundaries). All three modules leverage our world-scale APIs, so once they are in your workflow, you have global, accurate datasets at your fingertips. Contact us to request access to the Beta.
Atlas Field Kit
Natural disasters and humanitarian crises may disrupt critical infrastructure, but relief
efforts will require location information to help coordinate the response. Atlas Field Kit is a complete set of portable infrastructure packaged to run Mapbox Atlas anywhere, in as little as 90 seconds — just add power.
✨ New Demos
- Esri Data Viewer — Drag and drop your Esri data to see it styled in a Mapbox basemap.
- Itinerary Builder — Workflow, including source code, for creating customized maps like travel itineraries.
🛠 Product Updates + Improvements
- GL JS v.1.1.0 — Enable zoom speed customization, improved rendering. See more.
- Navigation — Hybrid Offline-Online Routing: Reduce data bills by using as little bandwidth as possible. Learn more in Android or iOS.
- Navigation — Improved walking directions: You’ll now see better turn-by-turn instructions and can fine-tune your experience by adjusting for walking speed or path preferences. Get more info.
- Search — Address accuracy: The Search API now returns an accuracy attribute, with levels covering: rooftop, parcel, approximate, interpolated, and street. Read the docs.
- Search — Intersections: Get results for intersection searches like “2nd St & Market St”. Here’s how.
- Accounts — Restricted Access tokens: Add URL restrictions to access tokens for your Mapbox GL JS web applications for an extra layer of security and to prevent unauthorized use.
