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What is Mapbox?

Mapbox is the location data platform for developers building custom geospatial features into mobile, web, and on-premise applications.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Customized maps and location experiences can be developed for any application, across platforms.
Unique maps can be designed to match a brand and engage its audiences.
Mapbox for EV and other Mapbox Automotive products are used to build tailored navigation experiences both in-vehicle and in companion apps for drivers.
Mapbox Search products support address search and address forms for website and applications.
Mapbox Navigation products serve every stage of business logistics, fleet managers, and delivery companies.
With Mapbox Globe view, interactive maps can be presented.
Mapbox Studio is used to create unique data visualizations and custom data layers for maps.
A customized store locator can be built to help customers find locations.
Customized navigation features, including turn-by-turn directions, for mobile applications.
Mapbox Navigation features help to keep drivers on track, on time, and safe.
Mapbox 3D Live styles offers interactive map design.
After creating a map, it’s available to style in Studio and available for use with Mapbox GL JS for web maps, Mapbox SDKs for mobile applications, and other Mapbox APIs.

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A multi functional tool to create visually compelling and accurate maps

Incentivized
Anirudh Kaushik
Operations Head in Marketing at Pickle Jar Media (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mapbox to craft engaging map-based visualisations. We require a solution that can blend rich locational data with visually appealing designs, and we find that Mapbox helps us plot data and create maps easily. We also needed. We also get a lot of civic datasets that we need to geocode for better information display.

Pros

  • build visual maps
  • geocode location data

Cons

  • better data for the indian subcontinent
  • More user friendly interface

Return on Investment

  • The viz has increased our readership
  • Templates have cut down on time to create

Usability

Other Software Used

Bigin by Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Descript, Interprefy, Infogram

Efficient and Powerful Visualization of Global Datasets

Jennings AndersonView profile
GeoInformation Scientist in Research & Development at YetiGeoLabs (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The entire mapbox eco-system, from Datasets and Tilesets to Mapbox Styles, is unmatched technology to easily share interactive visualizations of large geospatial datasets. Specifically, we use Mapbox GL-JS and Mapbox Tilesets to drive the map at <a title="Link: https://activity.youthmappers.org" rel="nofollow,noopener" target="_blank" href="https://activity.youthmappers.org">activity.youthmappers.org</a> to visualize edits made to OpenStreetMap by YouthMappers. We choose mapbox-gl-js because of the support for the both globe and 3d projections.

Pros

  • Solid User Experience
  • Documentation and Examples

Cons

  • Documentation & Examples. What is documented is great — but more examples would be welcome!

Most Important Features

  • Tilesets
  • Mapbox Studio

Return on Investment

  • None

Happy Mapbox user!

Incentivized
Jeff ChambersView profile
Co-Founder in Engineering at MineralAnswers.com (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mapbox as our map visualization tool to show all the oil and gas well locations, as well as land grid information for the US Upstream oil and gas industry.

Pros

  • Amazing data processing into tiles.
  • Dynamic layer control based on zoom level.
  • Easy to use interface to design beautiful maps.

Cons

  • I'm not a huge GIS nerd, so for what we are doing it is pretty solid.
  • The pricing model is a bit confusing, but the product is fantastic.

Most Important Features

  • Map Designer interface

Return on Investment

  • Mapbox let us quickly build the most user-friendly and nicest looking maps in our industry.

Alternatives Considered

Google Maps API

Great for small companies, super innovative and easy to integrate

Incentivized
Fedor ParetskyView profile
Co-Founder/CEO in Engineering at aspace, Inc. (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Great documentation! Most of the services, APIs, and products provided by Mapbox are very easy to implement. Sometimes as little as two lines of code need to be added.
  • Great pricing to try out their services - it's very rare to pass their free tier of service in the alpha or beta testing stages.
  • Provides some services that aren't provided at any other mapping or geography API/service company, like the Mapbox Navigation SDK.

Cons

  • Some services, like routing, can be *very* expensive in production. A company can potentially spend thousands of dollars on routing calculations (API calls), and at that point, you should probably consider moving your routing engine/calculations to an on-premise server (self-hosted service).
  • There is downtime. I periodically receive notifications of some of Mapbox's services being down. They have never affected us or our users, but I'm not so sure about other companies.
  • Limited customization of maps on some platforms. On platforms like iOS and Android, it takes some long experimenting sometimes to get the maps to display and behave in the way your product exactly needs them to.

Return on Investment

  • Mapbox is the only service that has all the products we need to release our product to the market. Without Mapbox, we would've spent far more time integrating multiple different map/geo services like Mapbox and HERE maps together.
  • Mapbox was sometimes expensive in the testing period, and we would've definitely moved some of the services on-premise to save money if we had the time.
  • Mapbox has functionality for traffic-aware routing in many countries, as well as matrix-structured routing data, which is what enables our service to function. Having all of this integrated within an API allows us to easily scale our service to multiple different cities/countries in a matter of days.

Alternatives Considered

Google Maps API

Other Software Used

Google Maps API, Poll Everywhere, Zoho Projects

Mapbox a great tool for great results

Incentivized
John RobertsView profile
Enterprise Reporting Manager in Information Technology at Anglo American (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • One place to handle colors, fonts and style information.
  • Easy to use dataset interface and editor.
  • Immediate previews of the map style generated.

Cons

  • The product is not always that easy to use, aimed at professionals understanding colors and palettes etc.
  • Being a full cloud product it can be complicated working with the interface when your connectivity is not great.
  • Tutorials and samples could be more visual and could cover more ideas on how to use Mapbox.

Return on Investment

  • I don't think this is a fair question for me to answer. Apart from our time we have not invested anything into Mapbox - so from that perspective the ROI is great! Great returns without any investment!

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