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 ...

D.C. location software company Mapbox is in talks to go public via a merger with a company backed by tech giant SoftBank, Sky News reported Friday. In a deal that could value the company at around $2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open-source mapping platform Mapbox has acquired activity tracking app Fitness AR, which allows users to view runs, hikes or cycling routes from Strava superimposed on a 3D map of the terrain. The ...

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 ...

Mapbox, a maps and location platform, has released new platform updates to enhance user’s 3D mapping experience by adding powerful dynamic lighting capabilities and landmark 3D buildings. The new ...

With Red Bull Heavy Water just around the corner (Oct. 16-31), the best stand up paddlers in the world are prepping for battle in San Francisco's ever-challenging waters. With a course that'll take ...

You might not recognize the name Mapbox, but you’ve seen the company’s work in services from CNN, Snapchat, Instacart, and the Weather Channel. (You can also use it to make a pretty lock screen.) Eric ...

Guangzhou Asensing Technology Co. Ltd, which specializes in high-precision positioning technology for intelligent transportation, demonstrated HD-MapBox at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which ...