Mapbox

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Mapbox (mapbox.com) offers commercial mapping services. Many of them use OpenStreetMap data and involve large open-source efforts. Mapbox is a main contributor to the Mapnik renderer project, it helped create the new web editor iD and it created Tilemill, the software used to design the OpenStreetMap map style. Mapbox employs a data team actively improving the map.

Tools and products

OSM Tools

  • OSM QA Tiles Daily OpenStreetMap planet dump as vector tiles. Available as a country and historical extracts
  • OSM Comments Find un-replied changeset comments and notes of a user
  • OSMCha A custom instance of OSM Changeset Analyzer to find and query changesets by certain properties
  • OSM Diary A live feed of the latest diary posts from the data team at Mapbox
  • OSM navigation map A map to explore Mapillary images to add navigation data to OSM like turn restrictions and oneways. Deprecated.

OSM Changesets

  • OSM changeset map Visualize a changeset on an interactive GL map like achavi
  • Machine learning to detect bad changesets using gabbar
  • Full geometry details for all involved objects in a changeset (Note as at August 2018 this service appears to have stopped updating)
    • New changesets are pushed to https://s3.amazonaws.com/mapbox/real-changesets/production/<changeset-id>.json

OSM-Wikidata Tools

Geospatial Tools

  • turfjs Modular geospatial analytical engine using JavaScript
  • minjur Convert .osm data to .geojson
  • tippecanoe Convert .geojson data to .mbtiles vector tiles
  • tile-reduce Run analysis on vector tiles at scale using JavaScript
  • osmlint Validate OSM data using tile-reduce
  • osm-compare Compare two versions of an OSM feature

Other Resources

Mapping Guides

Maps

They also provide various tilesets that can be used by customers:

  • Mapbox Streets - a general-purpose tileset
  • Mapbox Outdoors - an outdoor focused tileset with trails and high-resolution terrain data
  • OSM Bright - a starter style for creating your own OpenStreetMap design
  • Terrain-RGB Tiles - Raster tiles encoded with height data in RGB channels

External Links

Mapbox Data Team

The Mapbox Data Team continuously improves OpenStreetMap by fixing errors and adding data using open data sources. All active mapping tasks are ticketed and documented in our mapping repository.

Current mapping projects

Current Data Team members

Here are the OpenStreetMap user accounts on the Mapbox data team. For any questions, please get in touch with the team member listed or Maning Sambale or Arun Ganesh. These are only the usernames of people systematically updating OpenStreetMap as part of their job at Mapbox. There are many other Mapbox team members mapping on OpenStreetMap as a hobby - they are not listed here. The list of data team OSM user accounts was also maintained as an npm module until 2017.

Name

OSM username

Maning Sambale manings
Anastasiya Shafarenka Shaforenko_Anastasiya
Marharita Spireva Sparrow93
Nastassia Pahodzina Nastassia90
Aliaksandr Kholad aliaksandr555612
Aliaksandr Svirydau AliaksandrSvirydau
Aliaksei Varanovich AliakseiVaranovich
Anastasiya Sharamet NastyaSheremet
Andrei Varonin Drewarner
Anton Kasheuski Anton Kasheuski
Anton Klebanovich Anton_Klebanovich
Anton Shein Antony Shein
Artsem Siman ArtsemSiman
Dzmitry Malakhau Dzmitry Malakhau
Dzmitry Nikulin Dzmitry Nikulin
Hanna Linkevich hannalink
Hleb Tkach Gleb647
Iryna Alkhimionak IreneAlkh
Karyna Lis KarinaLis
Katsiaryna Butskevich Ekaterina Butskevich
Katsiaryna Stsiapurka EkaterinaStepurko
Kiryl Bochan Kiryl Bochan
Kseniya Samstyka Ksushas
Liliya Kviatkova KVI0n
Maksim Hradaboyeu Maksim Hradaboyeu
Maksim Sazanovich Maksim Sazanovich
Marina Makarava Maryna Makarava
Natallia Zhouner Natasha_Zhovner
Nikita Vyun Nikita Vyun
Pavel Aliakseyenka Pavel Aliakseyenka
Uladzislau Yakauleu vladislav471yakovlev
Uladzislau Yakuta uladzislau_yakuta
Valeria Yukovich Valeria Yukovich
Vitali Lagoida MaqIMap
Volha Kryvanos volha_kryvanos
Yana Laurik Yana Lauryk
Yauheniya Karnaukhava jmty8
Yuliya Kaliadziuk yuliya_kaliadziuk
Aleh Kukharchyk OlegKukharchik
Aleksey Gorelikov Aleksey Gorelikov
Artsiom Suravitski ArtеmSurovitsky
Dzianis Shpironak dz_shpironak
Ilya Azarov di5order
Iveta Vasilkova Iveta_vas
Katsiaryna Bazhankova Katsiaryna Bazhankova
Lyosha Boldyrau aliaksei_boldyrau
Marharyta Tachyla rittoch
Mariya Kuklis MaryiaKuklis1111
Masha Kholad marialoyko
Mikita Parakhovnik NikitaSalt
Nadzeya Ryndzina Rindinadya
Nastya Kalesnikava NastassiaKalesnikava
Nikita Kundelev Nikita Kundelev
Oleg Aliakseyenka Aleh Aliakseyenka
Raman Kazadoi RamanKazadoi
Siarzhuk Savianok siarhei_savianok
Sofiya Pauliukavets _dsm
Valeryia Yakauchyk Valeryia_Yak
Victoria Nosovich Vika_Nosovich
Vitali Klimko VitKlim
Vlad Tarasevich Tar_V
Volha Papko Olya Popko
Yahor Dabatoukin egordobatovkin
Yulia Gorodetskaya yulia_gorodetskaya
Аleksei Ramankevich ALRam
Aliaksandr Petukhou Aliaksandr Petukhou
Aliaksandr Talkachou AlexandrTolkachov
Alina Grishanovitch, Alina_Grishanovitch
Anastasiya Tsikhanava Anastasiya_tsikhanava
Andrei Patsiyuk andrei_ptk
Andrei Talpinski AndreiTalpinski
Arseniy Abramenka Arscen
Artsiom Baikach Artsiom29
Dayana Nikifarava NDI96
Dzianis Dzemidovich Dzianis_Dzemidovich
Dziyana Dziamchuk DianaDemchuk
Dzmitry Kozel dzmitry_kozel
Dzmitry Melnik Dzmitry Melnik
Dzmitry Mikhasko Dzmitry Mikhasko
Evgeny Nakhai Evgeny Nakhai
Ihar Butsia Ihar Butsia
Ihar Tsiuryn Aslambeck
Ilya Vaniukevich Cape8
Ivan Sasunkevich YaStratospheric
Kiryl Slabko M1zy
Kiryl Yudayeu kirsing
Maksim Kolasau kolasau
Maria Lukhverchyk Mary Lukhverchyk
Nikita Aldokhin Nikita Aldokhin
Sergey Mahon SergeyM52
Siarhei Vidzibor Siarhei Vidzibor
Sofya Trakala Sonya_Trakala
Teressa Branouskaya Tessabrs
Uladzislau Autushka VLaaDzislau
Uladzislau Sheliamekh Vladislav_Shelemekh
Vadzim Dubavets Vady_Dubovets
Vera Dudarava Vera_D
Victoria Timofeeva Victoria Timofeeva
Viktoryia Tarankova Victoria Tarankova
Yaraslau Yatskouski Yaraslau Yatskouski
Yauheni Yanushkevich yauheni yanushkevich
Yuliya Pashkouskaya Yuliya_Pashkouskaya
Alesia Bandarenka LBond93
Andrey Kozyrev AskingAndrea
Anton Valodzin Anton Valodzin
Artsiom Putsiata pzzvz
Catherine Sarokina Catherine Sarokina
Danila Hutouski Hutouski
Dzmitry Kerko Dzmitry K
Hanna Kulikova annakulikowa
Hleb Smaliakou Boogaloo Gee
Ilya Zaprudski IlyaZaprudski
Kostya Zaitsau KostyaZAyAc
Mayia Kastsenka Maya Smile
Nadya Filimonava Nadzeya_
Olga Kavalevskaya Olga_Kovalevskaya
Tamara Vyshynskaya tamara_v
Veslava Melnichuk Veslava
Viacheslau Duksht dksht
Victoria Supranovich Viika
Viyaleta Neuzorava vinevzorova
Alexey Ostroukh Aliaksei Astraukh
Aliaksandr Beliayeu Swax000
Aliaksandra Budylina Alex-a
Anastasia Gorelikova cr24-86
Anastasiya Varabyeva nice2meetu
Andrei Talstapiatau Andy_Tol
Dzianis Sheronau Densher13
Dzmitry Bladyka zkzwk
Dzyiana Hutkouskaya Diana31
Hleb Shkurko Gleb Shkurko
Ilya Miller Ilya Millerr
Ina Sumskaya InnaSumskaya
Kristina Mirsalimova Salimtina
Kseniya Nekrasava Kseniya_Nekrasava
Maria Levonyuk Marildv
Mikhail Boiarkin Misha Boiarkin
Mikita Furs Mikitaqz
Natallia Hancharyk Наташа Гончарик
Tatsiana Krauchanka tatsiana-krauchanka
Uladzislau Kanapliou Vladislav Konoplev
Viktoryia Hlushakova Viktoriaglu998
Viktoryia Kakhniuk vikakohnyuk
Viktoryia Surmach Viktoryia11
Volha Zelenko zelenol
Yauheni Abmiotka Edman92
Yuliya Razukevichus mirikaaa
Yury Valau Jurygr
Zhanna Baravenskaya ZhannaB

Team members active in OpenStreetMap

These are the user accounts of team members who are not a part of the data teams but are active in OpenStreetMap and projects related to the same.

Name OSM Username
Tom Lee Tom Lee
Alex Barth lxbarth
Arun Ganesh PlaneMad
AJ Ashton ajashton
Daniel Patterson mapboxdan
Shiv Ramachandran shvrm
Pratik Yadav pratikyadav
Marena Brikhurst marenab

Previous Team Members

Here is the list of previous data team members who currently are not a part of Mapbox.

Data Team Guidelines

In addition to the rules that apply to everyone in the community, here are the guidelines the Mapbox team reiterates and adds for themselves:

  1. We listen to the community. We are looking for your feedback on how to make a better map. Get any time in touch with any of our team members. For general feedback message Maning Sambale or Arun Ganesh
  2. Quality is paramount. We hold ourselves to the highest mapping standards as documented on the OpenStreetMap Wiki or as established as common practice in the community.
  3. Local knowledge first. Where in any doubt, the locally surveyed information prevails over remote updates.
  4. We disclose all ongoing mapping efforts on the Mapbox mapping repository.
  5. All full-time data team members will be listed here on this OpenStreetMap Wiki page and identified on their user profiles.
  6. Where possible we use public tools for coordinating work, allowing anyone in the community to participate.

Related posts

Consultancies working on Mapbox projects

Mapbox sometimes works with consultancies on a short-term basis for certain projects. We ensure they abide by the OpenStreetMap guidelines for mapping that our team follows. Here is the list of consultancies and the projects associated with them.

Name of the consultancy Projects they are working on Status (Active/Paused/Completed)
GIS-UA 1. Mapping service roads in parking lots

2. Mapping turn restrictions

Paused

Feedback

Please send any general feedback on Mapbox's work on OpenStreetMap to Maning Sambale or Arun Ganesh