Maps

What is Maps?

The maps reveal the world around us - where your friends are, who is winning the local elections and where your company is standing out. Mapbox provides the map design tools and mapping libraries you need to create dynamic, performance, and custom maps that meet your needs.

OVERVIEW

Rich and accurate data at scale

Mapbox maps use more than 130 multi-validated fonts for an accurate and comprehensive map around the world. Our fast, stable, and high-availability Google Maps APIs support more than 5 billion requests per day from global companies like Facebook, The Weather Company, Adobe, Snap, and Tableau.

Unmatched customization and world-class cartographic design

Create a fully branded map experience in Mapbox Studio or use nearly two dozen professionally created templates by our cartographers and map designers.

Dynamic real-time map rendering

Our industry-leading map renderer has been in development for over 10 years and uses the latest OpenGL technologies for on-device rendering. This leads to high-performance maps with maximum flexibility, allowing you to dynamically style and optimize your map based on your custom data.

Choose a map

Choose one of our professionally created maps for your application or project. Use the URL provided with our developer tools or customize the map in Mapbox Studio.

Mapbox Light

Mapbox Studio and dataset editor

A complete design ecosystem that lets you create, manage, and export custom maps and data.

Mapbox Studio is a visual interface for designing custom maps that let you control all designs, including uploading and creating custom data.

Mapbox Dataset Editor is a quick, simple data editor for creating data assets to visualize at the top of your maps.

Map box boundaries

A global data set curated by administrative, postal, and statistical boundaries for your maps, dashboards, and data visualizations. Mapbox boundaries consist of multiple layers of data that are matched, georeferenced, and processed as a set of Mapbox parts.

APIs

Our maps are built with vector maps - an advanced approach to mapping where data is delivered to the device and rendered accurately in real time, making it fast and performing well.

Google Maps API - Request style-optimized tiles with just the data you want, providing lightweight, high-performance maps that's great for low-bandwidth environments.

Static map API - Return independent map images or scan blocks. Users use this API seamlessly on devices that do not support OpenGL.

TILEQUERY API - Feature query - all without the need to render a map on your phone or browser.

SDKs, designed for developers

Our open source SDKs allow developers to add beautiful maps to applications on the following platforms:

Web (GL JS)

iOS

Android

Unit

Qt

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768