MapBox is a platform for creating custom maps that fit your style, enhance user experiences, and visualize your data. We make it easy to find bars on foursquare, search for hotels on Hipmunk, and organize notes in Evernote. With MapBox, anyone can publish maps that perfectly integrate with apps, products, and stories.
MapBox Streets is a highly accurate worldwide map powered by up-to-the-minute data from the OpenStreetMap project. It's built to be customized: change the map colors, show and hide features, and even configure the labeling language to make it yours.
MapBox Terrain is a beautiful elevation and land-use layer for the entire world, visualizing hills and elevation contour lines. Terrain is just as easy to customize as streets - it's simple to adjust color scheme or gently fade it for subtle map designs. Turn off labels and streets for a clean textured backdrop that makes custom cartography and data visualizations look beautiful.
MapBox Satellite offers highly-detailed imagery for the whole world. We process and color-correct millions of source images to create the best-looking up to date satellite layer available anywhere. You can easily style MapBox Satellite using the built-in color changing interface.
Whether you're an expert developer or a beginner, integrating maps into your web or mobile application is easy with MapBox. We offer a JavaScript API, REST API, and a Mobile SDK. Get started quick with comprehensive documentation, example projects and code, and helpful support.
Our open source JavaScript API makes web map implementation easier, faster, and more repeatable. MapBox.js is a plugin for Leaflet that extends and simplifies your code while connecting you to Leaflet's advanced features like vector rendering and strong ecosystem of plugins.
The MapBox Mobile SDK is a complete, open source toolkit for native iOS mapping applications. It's familiar to users of Apple’s MapKit framework, but offers greater flexibility for custom maps, offline use, and general customizability.
Get started now with MapBox on iOS| Features | MapBox SDK | Apple's MapKit |
|---|---|---|
| High-performance maps | x | x |
| Annotations & overlays | x | x |
| Geocoder support | x | x |
| Retina graphics | x | x |
| User location services | x | x |
| Prebuilt binary framework | x | x |
| Custom styles | x | |
| Unlimited, controllable caching | x | |
| Offline maps | x | |
| Source code available | x | |
| Annotation clustering | x | |
| Embedded UTFGrid interactivity | x |
You aren't locked into specific API clients with MapBox: our services are also accessible through a simple REST interface and in open formats like JSON. So you can tightly integrate MapBox into your site or app.
MapBox makes it easy to design totally custom maps. Our open source tools bring high end cartography to the web, letting you create and share data visualizations using both vector and raster data in TileMill, or by using our map embeds and APIs to visualize data in your browser.
TileMill is a powerful open source design studio for styling geodata. Design custom maps with your any data set in TileMill, and easily upload them to MapBox to share them with the world.
TileMill is available for Mac, Windows, & Linux. Download it nowWhether you need a clean canvas for data visualization, a film noir atmosphere for setting the mood, or map labels in the language of your audience, MapBox makes it easy to create the perfect map. Maps are a critical component of many apps, especially the new generation of location-aware and social apps. Designers and developers are pushing the boundaries of how MapBox can help them take control of the map interface.
Starting out with MapBox is free and we offer a scalable price model that fits everyone's needs, from indie bloggers to top web sites like foursquare. There are no overage penalties, additional map views are automatically served at $0.50 per 1,000 map views, so it's easy and affordable to handle temporary spikes in traffic.
Our infrastructure is fully geo-redundant, spanning the entire globe for speed and reliability. Even if there's a massive power outage or natural disaster, we always have a fallback.