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An endangered treasure
One of the most beloved and iconic vistas of the 8,000-acre Mohonk Preserve, Duck Pond, is slated to be drained and dismantled this spring. The pond is cradled between the foothills and the ridgeline of the Shawangunks, with a direct view of Sky Top Tower: the 100-year-old stone edifice that is perched on top of the mountain.
What Is Overdraft Protection?
Overdraft protection is a financial service that will cover you when you buy something without enough money in your account. You’ll be able to make the purchase, but will need to add money to your account quickly to make up the deficit. This service can help you avoid having your transaction declined – but can cost you in expensive fees. Banks typically charge a fee of about $35 for this convenience, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC).
SAML single sign-on (SSO) public beta
Connect Mapbox accounts to Okta and other enterprise-grade identity solutions By: Erin Quinn SAML single sign-on is now available for all customers, enabling teams with multiple users to collaborate more securely on our platform. With SAML authentication, developers can connect their Mapbox account to an enterprise-grade identity solution like Okta.
URL restrictions for access tokens
Secure access tokens for your web applications By: Erin Quinn Deploy Mapbox web applications with confidence by adding , enabling an extra layer of security and helping to prevent unauthorized use. When you add URL restrictions to your access token, only requests originating from specified URLs will be authorized. These restrictions can help prevent third parties from unauthorized use of your access tokens, so you can be confident that you’re only being billed for what you use.
And the winners are…
A look at our favorite entries and winners of the World Map Cup By: Erin Quinn Just like the World Cup, our first World Map Cup competition was impressive. We’re not going to lie though; it was more exciting to see you level up your mapping skills each round than it was to watch the actual World Cup. You shared everything from the travel of your teams, to the history of how their journey to the World Cup, to an interactive soccer game with Unity.
Seahawks win 50th consecutive dual meet
There has always been something uncanny, even magical about the unadulterated joy that makes its way out of the chlorinated municipal watering hole off Mulberry Street in the Village of New Paltz. At first, the Moriello Pool was situated where the lower parking lot is now. Then it moved up in the world to the crest of the eastern hill.
Map Pride 2018 with our new design tools – Points of interest
Map Pride 2018 with our new design tools Bust out your 🏳️🌈 rainbow flags 🏳️🌈 — it’s Pride Month. Across the globe, people are commemorating the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan and the larger societal contributions of the LGBTQ community. This June, Pride Parades are happening all over the world — from San Francisco to Zagreb (and even Antarctica!). To celebrate, use some of our new features to dress up your maps, Pride style.
Visualizing the Disappearing Rivers of the American West
Visualizing the Disappearing Rivers of the American West This week we interviewed the teams that created the stunning Disappearing Rivers visualization accompanying the Disappearing West project. The Center for American Progress and Conservation Science Partners conducted the research, analysis, design, and development of the underlying data.
Points of interest
#MayTheFourthBeWithYouBy: Erin QuinnI wanted to get in the spirit, so made a few of my own Star Wars-themed maps. Try it out for yourself:Find your an image or gif of your favorite Star Wars scene.Drag and drop it to instantly create a map: mapbox.com/cartogram.Tweet your map with the hashtag #WeAreBuilders #MayTheFourthBeWithYou and we’ll share it for all to enjoy.I miss you, Carrie Fisher! Happy Star Wars day! Here’s a preview of some of my favorite maps so far.
Patagonia’s “dam” good map – Points of interest
The outdoor brand launches its Discover the Blue Heart story map Patagonia just launched The Blue Heart of Europe storytelling map, part of their Dam Truth campaign to protect the rivers of the Balkans from hydroelectric damming. Patagonia’s digital team built this “scrollytelling” visualization using a custom-designed map (styled with Studio), and code examples from the GL JS library so readers fly to a location based on scroll position.
Styling Mapbox Terrain RGB – Points of interest
Recently, we released a new raster digital elevation model (DEM) source for styling terrain maps called Mapbox Terrain RGB. While styling any map in our cartography editor, Mapbox Studio, this data is available by adding the tileset as a new layer: This guide specifically will use Tristen’s Relief style (← which you can add to your account from this link) as a canvas to build a custom styled terrain map. Let’s dig in! Take a second to orient yourself to the Studio interface.
Explore your buildings before they’re built with Katz Industries
KIND-Automatic, by Katz Industries, lets commercial real-estate developers, construction companies, and architects create and interact with fully rendered 3D models on their phones. Using our Maps SDK for Mobile and our Geocoding API, the developers added geographic context to the models so they are easy to explore on a map and referenced to real-world coordinate positions.
Built in React Native: the Charlotte Light Rail app
Charlotte, NC based development shop Team Luna built the Charlotte Light Rail App for their city’s light rail service, allowing riders to see their closest station, get stop-by-stop arrival predictions, and answer quick questions like: “When’s the next train coming?” The self-proclaimed “web developers, now mobile developers” opted to build the mobile app with our Maps SDK for React Native — a cross-platform tool that allows you to build mapping and location into Android and iOS apps — after...
Explore our new interactive tools – Points of interest
Whether you’re new to our stack, preparing to move from Mapbox.js -> Mapbox GL JS, or curious how common map concepts are implemented across platforms, explore our new Interactive tools. These “Playgrounds” are designed for hands-on learning. Choose your use case and customize the output, then generate platform-specific code so you can publish your map ideas faster. 🚀 Interactive tools are a new part of mapbox.com/help, and we’re kicking it off with the Static API Playground and Marker Playground.
Geoblink: Location analytics for real estate and retail
Our business intelligence team is in Grapevine, Texas this week at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit. We’re showcasing some of our favorite implementations using our tools for maps and data visualization, like Geoblink’s cloud-based software for real estate and retail analysis. The Madrid-based Geoblink team chose to build its software using our location platform because our APIs offer dynamic, data-driven styling with large datasets, rendering fast maps on the client.
Lesbians Who Tech 2018 – Points of interest
See you at the Lesbians Who Tech Summit We’ve been counting down the days for the 5th annual Lesbians Who Tech Summit in SF, and we can’t wait to see everyone! Our own Lo Bénichou and Casey Miller will be rocking the stage on Friday at 2:50 pm at San Francisco Badlands with a co-authored talk: We’re hiring for over 60 open positions in San Francisco, Washington DC, and our satellite offices around the world.
High-resolution printing arrives in Mapbox Studio – Points of interest
You can now print high-resolution images directly from Mapbox Studio via the Style Editor: Under the hood of this early release, all rendering for Mapbox core styles or your own designer maps happens on the client. Studio uses Mapbox GL JS to write WebGL to a canvas element?—?it’s this element type that allows you to export your map as a gorgeous image. In the new print UI in Studio, the values of , , are up to you. The only limit is a final output restriction of 8,000px width by 8,000px height.
The Sleazy War on the Humane Society
This story was published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C. In recent weeks, riders of Washington, D.C.’s Metro system have seen a parade of posters inside trains that make shocking allegations about the nation’s best-known animal rights group, the Humane Society of the United States.
Hundreds of thousands of polygons rendered on the fly
Hundreds of thousands of polygons rendered on the fly Is it possible to custom style every single building in an entire city on a map? This is the question Eugene Chen, of Darkhorse Analytics, wanted to answer while exploring better ways to visualize trends in property assessments from open data in his hometown of Edmonton, Alberta.
Navigate the festival universe with Woov – Points of interest
An app that’s more like a fantasy world than a map for events “I’m near the first pole to the front-left of the main stage”?—?that’s how most people at festivals find their friends. Woov founder Sebastien Westerduin wants festival goers to focus on having fun rather than wasting time navigating events.
Leverege + Mapbox at Smart Cities Week – Points of interest
We’re headed downtown to Smart Cities Week in DC to present our work with DDOT on Vision Zero and catch up with solutions providers building on the Mapbox platform. I’m particularly excited to show off the work being done by DC Metro based Leverege, whose IoT product suite adapts to the needs of the end user across hardware and interface.
Leverege + Mapbox at Smart Cities Week – Natalie Pitcher – Medium
We’re headed downtown to Smart Cities Week in DC to present our work with DDOT on Vision Zero and catch up with solutions providers building on the Mapbox platform. I’m particularly excited to show off the work being done by DC Metro based Leverege, whose IoT product suite adapts to the needs of the end user across hardware and interface.
Visualizing 1,000 flights a day at DXB – Points of interest
Dubai International Airport (DXB) is the world’s busiest hub for international air travel. All 1,000+ daily flights heading to more than 240 destinations are visualized on this map built by the agency Prototype for DXB. Travelers can explore flight connections aided by smooth airplane marker animations, a subtle basemap, and interactive pop-ups that summarize traffic from every country.
DoorDash's new maps | Mapbox
DoorDash upgraded the app all of us use to track the status of our food obsessively. The new consumer-facing app keeps us patient as we wait for our food with a new map showing a custom Dasher icon that lets us track our meal. Now you can watch a Dasher begin their journey, dodge traffic with a more efficient route, and then approach your doorstep. DoorDash also upgraded the “Dashers” app - used by the couriers who make food magically appear on our doorstep.
Doordash launches with maps on mobile apps
We all know what it feels like to be hangry, that grumbling feeling where hunger and anger meet. A full day outside or a meeting that runs through the lunch hour can get you to this place pretty quickly. It’s at a moments like these when we can be grateful we live in a world where we can grab our phones and open DoorDash, an on-demand restaurant delivery service app, to bring food right to our doors.
Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association Decides What is 'Natural'
Ingredients created by food companies flavor what Americans eat each day—everything from juice drinks and potato chips to ice cream and canned soups. They give Cheetos their addictive cheesy taste and help distinguish Jolly Ranchers from other fruit-flavored candies. But the organization responsible for the safety of most “natural” and “artificial” flavors that end up in foods and beverages isn’t part of the U.S. government.
Food flavor safety system a ‘black box’
Reading Time: 13 minutes Key findings: The Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association, a secretive food industry trade group, has become the de-facto regulator of flavor ingredients. The flavor industry’s system of self-policing helps it avoid government oversight, potentially saving companies lots of time and money. The flavor business is a multi-billion dollar industry, but its companies keep very low profiles, partly to protect their valuable ingredient formulas.
D.C. Trade Groups Spend More on Advertising and PR Than Lobbying
Forget lobbying. When Washington, D.C.’s biggest trade associations want to wield influence, they often put far more of their money into advertising and public relations, according to a new Center for Public Integrity investigation. Take, for example, the American Petroleum Institute. The oil and gas industry trade group spent more than $7 million lobbying federal officials in 2012.
The Sleazy War on the Humane Society
The Humane Society is under attack by a PR firm that advises the American Kennel Association. Who runs the firm behind the attacks? — The Grocery Manufacturers Association gave $90,000 in 2013. The trade group has fought mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods. The Center for Consumer Freedom has praised those foods as safe and beneficial. — J.R. Simplot Company Foundation is a private foundation funded by the agriculture giant of the same name. It gave $20,000, in 2010 or 2011.
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