Mapbox announces new location intelligence platform updates at BUILD with Mapbox

San Francisco, December 1, 2022 – Mapbox, the leading maps and location platform powering a new generation of location-aware applications, today announced new products that empower developers and organizations to make better data-driven decisions, develop easier and faster, and drive intuitive and seamless user experiences with innovative location technologies. From fitness trackers and connected vehicles to logistics and business intelligence, location is essential to how we navigate, get hundreds of services on demand, and understand complex information quickly.

About the Mapbox Platform Updates

Make better decisions with data
• The new Matrix API delivers improved up-to-date routes and ETAs enabling advanced functionality on fleet optimization and cost savings with future departure time capability that accounts for traffic patterns.
• Mapbox Boundaries v4 increases the coverage and granularity of industry-leading datasets with over 200,000 new or updated geographic boundaries across the Americas and Asia, powering geospatial analytics and visualizations.

Easier and faster development
• Maps Internationalization dramatically improves the global user experience while saving hours or days of backend coding. Developers now only need to build a finite set of Maps styles to dynamically display a wide range of maps in the local language and worldview of their customers’ preferences.
• Navigation SDK with Drop-In UI is a pre-made navigation layout that speeds deployment of navigation embedded in an application while enabling customization for use-case and brand-specific requirements.
• Navigation SDK Copilot provides fleet organizations with insights into their route performance through detailed trace files and search analytics to improve driver experience and fine tune routes.

Drive amazing user experiences
• Mapbox Globe View, the pinnacle of map visualization, offers developers an alternative to the flat and skewed Mercator Projection when they want to present globally or continentally scaled location stories.
• Mapbox Studio provides enhanced organization and collaboration features. Developers can now create and name folders, move styles around, and search and sort projects effortlessly. The ability for collaborators to easily enter a project and pick up where a colleague left off is a key advantage for large projects with multiple developers.
• The Mapbox Core Styles have been redesigned to offer sleek, contemporary motifs without sacrificing functionality. Building upon already industry-leading performance, the redesigned Core Styles save developers countless hours they would have spent building their own base maps.
• Mapbox Developer Relations Program has been revamped with new content, community, and developer tool initiatives to ensure builders find success quickly and thrive.

These platform updates will be presented today at BUILD with Mapbox, a virtual event that also highlights the innovations of ANWB, Nextdoor, OneSoil, PicNic, The World Bank, Toyota Motor North America, and Varicent.

Key quotes:

Garrett Miller, General Manager, Navigation, Mapbox

“BUILD with Mapbox is about sharing new products with our customers through the lens of real-world deployments. BUILD showcases how our customers invent with Mapbox to deliver positive outcomes. The Mapbox community are builders who solve complex challenges and deliver visionary solutions with our maps, search, data, and navigation products. The businesses of our customers are important to us. We are excited to continue providing new tools and programs that enable their successful innovations.”

Charan Lota, Executive Chief Engineer & GVP, Connected Technologies, Toyota Motor North America

“At Toyota, we are passionate about the user experience and improving the way customers interact with technology. Now more than ever, it’s important for us to collaborate with cutting-edge technology providers, like Mapbox, to layer in industry leading digital experiences in our vehicles. I am pleased to share insights with the BUILD with Mapbox audience on how we deliver enhanced customer experiences utilizing technology through location data and connected services.”

Alex Howard, Lead Engineer, Discover and Maps at Nextdoor

“As the digital world and real world have merged more closely together, location services have enabled Nextdoor to delight customers by delivering relevant, personalized and hyper-local experiences. I am excited to attend BUILD with Mapbox and explore how Nextdoor can continue to push the boundaries of bringing neighbors and businesses together.”

Additional resources:
• Mapbox winter release 2022 launch summary
• Expanding the boundaries of visualization
• Improved delivery ETAs drive fleet efficiency and cost savings with the enhanced Matrix API
• 3D Globe Map: A new way to experience the world
• Stay relevant with Mapbox Core Styles redesign
• A new commitment to developer relations at Mapbox
About Mapbox

Mapbox is the leading maps and location platform powering a new generation of location-aware applications. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with a full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 3.5 million registered developers and nearly 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

For more information, visit www.mapbox.com.