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Also known as MBX, mapbox.com, Mapbox, Inc.

Mapbox is an American provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as Foursquare, Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, The Weather Channel, Instacart, and Strava. Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps.

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Company.name
Mapbox, Inc.
Company.logo
Mapbox logo 2019.svg
Company.type
Private
Company.industry
Maps
Company.num_employees
650+
Company.revenue
$100 million
Company.location_city
San Francisco, CaliforniaWashington, D.C.
Company.location_country
U.S.

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Mapbox | Maps, Navigation, Search, and Data

APIs and SDKs for AI-powered maps, location search, turn-by-turn navigation, and geospatial data in mobile or web apps. Get started for free.

mapbox.com

We equip innovators to keep up with a changing world through using real-time data and map rendering technologies that make it look easy. Mapbox is an engineering-driven technology company operating globally at scale, delivering services to customers across logistics, delivery, automotive, retail, travel, manufacturing, enterprise software and other industries. At our core, we love to build. Whether that's building our products or customer relationships, we are a place for the creative, the innovative, the hands-on, and the bold We are committed to creating a supportive environment for our team, and building meaningful relationships with our customers and developers. We want everyone to feel valued, seen, heard, safe, and empowered. We are committed to making Mapbox more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Our core values drive how we work and how we build our team through who we hire, reward, and promote. Join our team and help build the location platform changing the way people move, understand, and experience the world. Mapbox began as a small team of developers who needed better mapping tools to do our job. So we built them. Our first mapping projects supported international development operations, working side-by-side with partners like the United Nations, World Bank, USAID, and Doctors without Borders. Today, Mapbox is a global location platform. Our vision is powering navigation for people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. The Mapbox leadership team combines decades of technical experience and corporate expertise to drive the evolution of location technologies. We leverage the unique potential of our products to drive outsized positive impact. We support changemakers around the world to build solutions and scale their work.

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Mapbox is a subscription-based web mapping platform. The platform can be used to store, share, and geolocate data, as well as create interactive and time-based maps that can be easily embedded into a website.

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Official name
Mapbox, Inc.
Employees
221
Official website
www.mapbox.by
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inception
2010-00-00
hashtag
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Commons category
Mapbox
official blog URL
www.mapbox.com/blog
social media followers
12400
name
MapBox
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www.mapbox.com/careers
service status information URL
status.mapbox.com
OpenStreetMap tag
source=Mapbox
terms of service URL
www.mapbox.com/legal/tos
phone number
+375 (29) 6-350-125
user manual URL
docs.mapbox.com
estimated value
1300000000
described at URL
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date of official opening
2013-08-07
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Mapbox is an American provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as Foursquare, Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, The Weather Channel, Instacart, and Strava. Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as Google Maps.

By 2020, Mapbox had switched to a proprietary software license for most of the software it had maintained as open source. As of October 2020, Mapbox had a valuation of $1 billion.

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