Mapbox just updated the entire world with fresh satellite
imagery, totaling 135,000,000 km² of satellite imagery from Maxar
Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), the leader in Earth
Intelligence and Space Infrastructure. The new data is from Maxar’s
WorldView satellites — the most advanced, highest-resolution Earth
observation instruments of their kind. The high-resolution imagery
includes beautiful colors and textures, making it great for finding
landmarks during a run on Strava, optimizing delivery times on
Straightaway by zooming in on the last 100 feet, seeing snow storms
forming along the coastlines in British Columbia with The Weather
app, visualizing the landscape while reading National Geographic,
and even seeing a real-time heatmap of what’s happening in a city
on Snapchat.
“The world is beautiful, which is why we are working with Maxar
to deliver its most accurate representation to our customers. Maxar
builds excellent satellites, which are producing the highest
quality imagery available today,” said Eric Gundersen, Mapbox CEO.
“By incorporating the high-resolution satellite imagery, we are
able to offer 3D maps that are far more advanced and detailed than
anything else. The maps look stunning!”
This imagery, combined with the recent launch of Mapbox 3D, is
the canvas for creating totally custom maps for the web and mobile.
Now all maps are in 3D: the camera’s view of the map is controlled
through the newly launched Camera API, and the sun’s position is
simulated based on geographic location and time of day.
“We’re excited to continue our long partnership with Mapbox,”
said Dan Jablonsky, Maxar CEO. “With the integration of Vivid Basic
into their platform, Mapbox continues to raise the bar for
providing end users with beautiful and accurate maps. When our
next-generation WorldView Legion satellites launch, we will
significantly expand our collection capacity supporting 3D model
generation for the most accurate and up to date foundation data for
mapping products."
The combination of Maxar’s image quality, volume, and recency —
together with the launch of Mapbox 3D — transforms the interactive
map experience. This imagery lets you read runway markings, count
cars and shipping containers, and see inside buildings under
construction. To enable the realistic views this new imagery
offers, Mapbox has released new APIs to deliver greater controls
for developers:
Camera API: The Camera API is the free form low-level API
for controlling the camera and its view of the map. This increases
the map’s maximum pitch from 60 to 85 degrees. This provides access
to the low-level camera code for developers to fine-tune details
where the map can be tightly coordinated with other UI elements,
transitioning smoothly and precisely, framing the right content in
the viewport.
High Performance DEM (Digital Elevation Model): Terrain
tile sizes are now reduced by 50% on average compared to the legacy
terrain-rgb data, corresponding to a 35% improvement in hillshade
layer rendering. Improved map load by 30% on average, and in some
styles more than 50%, through improved prioritization of resource
loading and task distribution.
Sky API: The new Sky API, allows the map to simulate the
sun’s position based on geographic location and time of day.
Gradient sky layers use color ramps, starting at a distance of 0
from the sky center, and 1 at the sky’s farthest extent. Here the
fading is set between 0.8 and 1 to ramp within the visible
range.
About Mapbox
Mapbox is a mapping and location cloud platform for developers
that provides the building blocks (SDKs and APIs) for real time
location awareness into automobiles and applications.
The Mapbox platform creates a feedback cycle, where AI-powered
data pipeline processes +300 million miles of anonymized and
aggregated live road telemetry data daily — allowing Mapbox to
continuously update the map everywhere in the world. The cloud
platform shares this live map with developers via its scalable
mapping software components (maps, navigation, search) for mobile
and web applications, logistics and dispatching, and in-car
automotive navigation.
Founded by Eric Gundersen in 2010 in a garage space in
Washington, D.C., Mapbox now has roughly 700 million monthly active
users touching its maps, a global workforce of 520 employees, and
its services power industry leaders, including CNN, General
Electric, IBM, Instacart, Lonely Planet, Mastercard, Snapchat,
Tableau, and The Weather Channel. Learn more at Mapbox.com
About Maxar
Maxar is a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence
and Space Infrastructure. We deliver disruptive value to government
and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and
navigate our changing planet; deliver global broadband
communications; and explore and advance the use of space. Our
unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and
a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and
deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost
effectiveness. Maxar’s more than 4,300 employees in more than 20
global locations are inspired to harness the potential of space to
help our customers create a better world. Maxar trades on the New
York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange as MAXR. For more
information, visit www.maxar.com.
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