#30DayMapChallenge

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At BUILD with Mapbox, Alberto Meouchi from MIT’s Civic Data Design Lab demonstrated how the Atlas of Popular Transport uses Mapbox tools and GTFS feeds to animate commuting and mobility patterns around the world. 

Using the Mapbox GL globe, this project converts a high-resolution scan of Vincenzo Coronelli’s 1698 celestial globe into an interactive 3D experience, reimagining historical cartography for global audiences in the digital age.

Maps reveal the reach of cell networks. Using Mapbox GL JS and custom coverage tilesets, Megan White built a dashboard to dynamically calculate and visualize network coverage along a route.

The team at DataKind uses the Mapbox Boundaries datasets to build scalable tools that visualize geographic disparities and inform smarter interventions in housing, food access, and community support.

In one of the BUILD Show & Tell sessions, Chris Whong walked through how he reverse-engineered a popular SVG fantasy map generator — unpacking its inner workings to understand how fictional worlds get built, one vector at a time. 

The Mapbox Documentation team makes it easy to start building maps with clear code samples and demos, like this straightforward (and minimal) “Display a map on a webpage” example.

See how the New York Times used Mapbox to visualize America’s expanding EV-charging network. Each line maps distance, density, and infrastructure in motion, showing the evolving dimensions of electrified mobility.

Using Mapbox, Loka.my delivers intuitive visualizations and seamless navigation, helping travelers discover attractions and visualize guided 3D tours like this one around Kuala Lumpur.

Designers — meet interactive mapping in Figma. You can now make prototypes with live Mapbox maps directly inside your designs. Bring real data, style, and movement to your prototypes without a single line of code.

A jet-age–inspired map style celebrates the golden age of travel with low-zoom aircraft icons, flight paths, and airport-code labels. As you “arrive,” the style shifts into a warm mid-century travel-poster aesthetic, with coastal edges, boxed place names, and local icons that bring each destination to life.

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Hexagons make great maps — and great games! This hex-based map, created by Mapbox aficionado Rafa Gutierrez, shows how the versatile H3js library can help to build puzzles, grids, and interactive experiences.

OpenStreetMap’s new vector tile service now works seamlessly with Mapbox GL JS, unlocking new ways to visualize global data. In this demo, railroads from the OSM tileset come to life on the Mapbox Standard Style — revealing tracks hidden in unexpected places like amusement parks and shipping docks.

Check out this demo by Kenji Shima showing off the new Mapbox Japan Weather Layers. Toggle raster tilesets, swap projections, and experiment with particle animations.

The Mapbox Standard style features over 1,600 beautifully designed landmark icons across 40+ cities, giving maps instant context and a vivid sense of place.

During BUILD with Mapbox, in the “Streamlined Map Development Part 2” session, @Mathew Anthony showcased an impressive before-and-after — cleaning up styling, simplifying layers, and turning a busy map into a sharp, production-ready design.

The built-in color blindness simulator in Mapbox Studio, helps designers test and refine styles to ensure legibility and accessibility, so maps can communicate clearly and inclusively.

Travel to a Mario-inspired world in this custom map style, designed to pair with 3D live navigation. Bold, playful gamer colors set the stage for dynamic karts and favorite avatars.

This map explores one interpretation of New York City’s neighborhood boundaries. It visualizes a contiguous polygon dataset using the four color theorem—ensuring no two adjacent neighborhoods share the same color—while interactive hover effects and search combine local data with Mapbox Search Box API results.

Natural Earth is a public-domain dataset for global mapping. This map designer integrated its data on riverways, physical feature labels, and graticule lines into Mapbox Standard to create a traditional globe style — shown in the Natural theme.

Inspired by Giambattista Nolli’s iconic 1748 plan of Rome, this style reimagines the mostly-black ichnographic aesthetic that defined one of history’s most influential maps — now brought to life with modern rendering.

Browse our collection to see how to create your own version of this Nolli-style map.

The orthographic projection is one of the oldest around. At 0° pitch, it gives a top-down, perspective-free view of Earth that feels both flat and spherical at once.

This retro map inspired Owen to make a 3d map with a plan view drawing style.

Tripadvisor used Mapbox to reimagine how travelers interact with maps — proving that great pin design and smooth interaction can directly drive results: 70% higher engagement. 3.5% more bookings.

Using global emissions data, Climate TRACE visualizes PM2.5 pollution plumes from thousands of industrial sources worldwide, revealing that over 1.6 billion people live within 10 km of these emissions-intensive facilities.

Get an early preview of the procedurally generated building details coming soon to Mapbox Standard. Details like realistic roof shapes and facades bring 3D cityscapes to life with texture and depth.

Macrostrat uses Mapbox to reveal the geology of the planet in stunning detail. With over 225 geologic maps and 2.5 million polygons, it visualizes Earth’s crust, from bedrock to stratigraphic units, for exploration worldwide.

An Outdoors Winter map built on Mapbox Standard uses color-coded lines to show ski run difficulty. A custom expression detects symbols like diamonds, squares, and circles in each run’s name and colors them by regional convention, while unrated runs appear in white.

A minimalist yet data-rich vision of the map of the future, this “Tron Style” design pulses with LiDAR-driven precision where every line and structure has purpose. Created for futuristic and autonomous vehicles, it merges mapping and technology into a single, seamless experience.

The Sofar Wayfinder Voyage Simulator lets captains and operators test and compare ocean voyage plans in real time. It runs full-physics simulations in the browser using vessel models and live forecast data — so users can adjust routes, tweak power, and instantly see the impact on ETA, fuel, and weather.

Watch Duty is an award-winning wildfire alert app built with Mapbox, recognized by TIME, Apple, and Fast Company. It helps people stay informed and safe with wildfire updates.