Eric Gundersen sipped tea and haggled for maps as he sat in the basement of a government office in Kabul. A tattooed, fast-talking American with perennial stubble, Gundersen was running an 18-person ...

Mapbox, the SoftBank-backed developer of mapping applications that competes with Google Maps, TomTom and Here, has acquired the developers behind Mapzen’s Valhalla project in a bid to strengthen its ...

DigitalGlobe, the publicly traded, high-res imagery service that owns its own fleet of satellites, has long been known as a purveyor of fine satellite imagery to governments and large companies like ...

Dispatch system used by 23,000 taxis upgrades maps to improve driver efficiency and safety. SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mapbox, the location platform for developers and enterprises, ...

Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view. In February 2013, imagery specialist Charlie Loyd was looking for a job. He'd been working on ...

Geodata is blowing up like crazy. As of last year, more than 680,000 apps in the Apple store were using location services to pinpoint users and serve up site-specific directions or restaurant ...

At Mapbox's current digs. Following an election in August in which workers voted against recognizing a union at DC geospatial software company Mapbox, union members said they experienced retaliation ...

Mapbox has a leg up on Google in that it provides more flexible options for linking image sensors and contextual awareness. Just in the last month, Mapbox announced numerous partnerships and ...

(Bloomberg) -- Mapbox Inc., which makes mapping tools used by Instacart Inc. and Snap Inc., appointed a new chief executive officer who will focus on expanding sales to automakers and logistics ...

Goodbye CDs, jump drives and visiting a dealer for an update. The next era of in-car navigation is here. Toyota is saying goodbye to the industry's dumb navigation maps, working alongside partners ...