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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...