BUILD with Mapbox 2025
as the organisers put it
BUILD with Mapbox is a virtual conference exploring the latest in maps, navigation, and location technology. Expect 3 days of dynamic presentations and practical technical sessions.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building the best maps in the world: A conversation with leaders from Mapbox and Tripadvisor | Young Hahn, Cherie Wong | 57m |
Mapbox ships procedural 3D building generation that creates roofs, facades and entrances at runtime using ML and sensor-derived road data, and a Navigation SDK… | ||
| Getting started with Mapbox GL JS | Chris Wong | 48m |
A working store‑locator map is built with Mapbox GL JS in about 24 hours: a GeoJSON feature collection of Vermont burger venues is added as a GeoJSON source… | ||
| What's new in Mapbox Maps: BUILD 2025 highlights | Greg Banaker, Marina Smith | 26m |
Mapbox ships Mapbox Standard v4 as a fully customizable 3D basemap with expanded POI coverage from a 330 million–location dataset, adds HD lane-level roads by… | ||
| What's new in Mapbox Search: BUILD 2025 highlights | Robert Florance, Cris Byers, Jordan Parmer, Chika Hayashi | 25m |
Mapbox announces concrete data and API updates: Mapbox Geocoding adds 15 million addresses and 20 million U.S. unit-level addresses, plus 3 million rooftops… | ||
| What's new in Mapbox Navigation: BUILD 2025 highlights | David Sniderman, Marco Leal | 28m |
Overview of 2025 Navigation updates: v3 Navigation SDK adds a navigation UX framework for production-ready embedded apps (days–weeks) plus a low-level core SDK… | ||
| Mapbox Feedback Agent: Enable voice-driven feedback in applications | Chris Wong | 22m |
Mapbox launches the Mapbox Feedback Agent, an SDK that captures voice, runs LLM transcription and categorization, and sends metadata to Mapbox for triage. It… | ||
| Understand the Mapbox Standard style | Stephen Kennedy | 38m |
Mapbox Standard is a 3D basemap platform that delivers runtime-configurable styling, dynamic lighting, and a slots system replacing 120+ layers so custom… | ||
| Ways to get data into Mapbox maps | Emily Ryan | 51m |
Compares three concrete methods: on the map vs in the map shows markers/annotations as HTML or native views (custom div markers, view annotations) and fetching… | ||
| Elebase.io: Create and maintain beautiful interactive maps—without writing code | John Fransen | 27m |
Elebase pairs with Mapbox to let teams build interactive maps with a no-code content model while also exposing an HTTP API for custom apps. It stores points… | ||
| Empowering pilots: How GE Aerospace FlightPulse uses Mapbox to elevate safety and sustainability | Chris Wong, Jonathan Morell, Richard Pineo | 23m |
FlightPulse is an iPad app that adds a Preflight module showing anonymized historical trajectories at airports, used by ~60,000 pilots across 30 airlines and… | ||
| Build an agent with Mapbox MCP | Svetlana Zadedyurina, Matt Podwysocki, Chris Tufts | 45m |
Mapbox releases a Model Context Protocol server that lets agents call Mapbox APIs directly; a demo wires Mapbox MCP Server into a Crew AI flow using Crew AI +… | ||
| See the road ahead: BMW’s curve-ahead view with eHorizon | Konrad Hübner | 32m |
BMW builds a Curve‑Ahead View that detects dangerous bends from crawled map curvature and fleet speeds, matches and tracks them with Mapbox’s road object… | ||
| Building with the Navigation UX Framework on Android | David Snderman | 47m |
Mapbox’s Navigation UX Framework (dependency version 1.3 RC1) runs on top of Maps, Directions and Matrix APIs and boots a production-ready Android nav app by… | ||
| Dev Stories: Show & Tell | Marco Juliani, Nafula Evelyn Ouma, Noe Osorio Garcia, Taiki Kojima, Chris Whong | 46m |
Nine short demos show working builds and concrete numbers: a city monitor that streams and renders 50,000 alerts with React MapGL, clustering and an… | ||
| Vibe coding with the Mapbox DevKit MCP Server | Jussi Salmanin, Ian Ward | 50m |
Mapbox ships a DevKit MCP server that exposes concrete tools—style helper, token creation, geojson preview—so a coding agent can create and preview styles… | ||
| Make a map in minutes: How Mapbox is streamlining map development | Matthew Anthony, Rebecca Herren | 21m |
Mapbox launches a Data Workbench that ingests common geospatial formats, previews live data and lets users edit an MTS recipe live preview so changes show… | ||
| How to take Mapbox Search offline | Bin Pen | 26m |
Mapbox Offline Search SDK delivers forward and reverse geocoding, POI and search along route entirely on device by downloading regional tile packs into a… | ||
| Customize Mapbox Standard in Studio | Chris Whong | 45m |
Mapbox Standard is customized live in Studio to make a bikeshare map match a brand: colors for green spaces and water are picked to match the app, POI density… | ||
| Under the hood: Offline tilepacks v2 | Joel Groen | 22m |
Mapbox reduces offline tilepack sizes by up to 40% by deduplicating features across adjacent zooms (biggest wins around zooms 12–18 and higher), producing… | ||
| Supercharge EV experiences with Mapbox | Shray Khullar | 24m |
Mapbox presents a concrete EV toolkit: EV Charge Finder (live playground with availability colors, operator and amenity filters, ad‑hoc payment flag), EV… | ||
| From field to screen: Designing for real-time conservation impact | Chris Wong, Josh Hansen, Daniel O'Neill | 23m |
Two production platforms: Skylight (web) monitors 1.3 million maritime vessels monthly and runs automated vessel detection on satellite imagery with commercial… | ||
| Streamlined Map Development: Part 1 | Matthew Anthony, Rebecca Herren | 30m |
Live demo shows how Data Workbench uploads varied geospatial files by drag‑and‑drop, previews live tiling, edits JSON MTS recipes (filters, bounding box… | ||
| Getting started with the Maps SDK for Flutter | Chris Wong | 49m |
Shows how to add mapbox_maps_flutter v2.10.0 to a Flutter app, set iOS minimum to 14, and supply an access token via --dart-define ACCESS_TOKEN in a VS Code… | ||
| Building with the Navigation SDK on iOS | Artem Stepuk, Guzel Filatova | 42m |
Shows a working SwiftUI app wired to the Mapbox Navigation SDK: installs MapboxNavigation, uses a NavigationProvider and RoutingProvider to request a route… | ||
| The secrets behind great navigation | Nikita Parfionau | 19m |
Mapbox Navigation SDK and the UX framework package four concrete design rules: add perceptual cues like 3D landmarks and lane-level HD maps to speed reckoning… | ||
| Building a scalable public map for Singapore's general elections 2025 | Foong Yi Zhuan | 28m |
A public election map built with Mapbox visualizes 2025 boundaries, live results and historical comparisons, is embedded on 20+ media agencies and draws 5… | ||
| Getting started with the Maps SDK for Android | Emily Ryan | 40m |
Gets a Mapbox map running in a Jetpack Compose Android app: add an access token in an XML resource, set min SDK 21, add Mapbox Maven and two Compose… | ||
| Scale smarter, spatially: How Kraken Technologies reimagines field optimization with Mapbox | Ido Ginodi, Michaela Russell | 36m |
Kraken Field pairs an automated scheduling engine with Mapbox routing to cut 4 million miles a year and save 300 hours of driving every day, enabling 150,000… | ||
| Mapbox Search Box vs. Mapbox Geocoding | Robert Florence, Chris Byers | 27m |
Clear differentiation: use Mapbox Geocoding for backend, high‑scale, precise address work — forward/reverse geocoding, an address autofill SDK, batch requests… | ||
| The art of geospatial storytelling: Mapbox Boundaries in Tableau | Jim Walseth, Cris Byers | 28m |
Mapbox supplies a global dataset with postal, administrative and legislative polygons that plugs into Tableau to tag, aggregate and render large spatial… | ||
| Building with Mapbox GL JS in React | Chris Wong | 50m |
Live demo builds a React wrapper that instantiates Mapbox GL JS via a ref, mirrors props with useEffect hooks, and sets mapboxgl.accessToken; buttons change… | ||
| Behind the scenes of Mapbox Satellite imagery | Bill Morris | 50m |
Mapbox describes how a global satellite tileset is built: cloud removal composites a cloudless atlas, color balancing uses the open-source Rio Color and an… | ||
| Artificial intelligence, meet location intelligence | Ana Sharma, Angela Navaro | 25m |
Mapbox equips LLMs with spatial skills by wrapping APIs into a plug‑in called Mapbox MCP Server that interprets phrases like “10‑minute walk” and calls… | ||
| Add location search to web projects with Mapbox Search JS | Andrew Sepic | 40m |
Live demos install and use @mapbox/searchjs-core, @mapbox/searchjs-web and @mapbox/searchjs-react to call the Geocoding API (forward, reverse, suggest) and the… | ||
| Streamlined Map Development Part 2 | Matthew Anthony, Rebecca Herren | 36m |
Live demo restyles the Chicago bikability app built in Part 1 by importing the published tileset into the Mapbox Studio style editor, swapping circle points… | ||
| Drawing carbon boundaries: How Mapbox powers land eligibility analysis - Earthshot’s LandOS platform | Emily Kauffman | 25m |
LandOS turns user-drawn GeoJSON into automated eligibility checks and report widgets, using the Mapbox React package for mapping, Mapbox Draw for drawing, and… | ||
| Visualizing the journey: Using data and design to transform event travel with Viata | Ken Aragon | 25m |
Viata converts maps from miles to minutes with a patented Travel Time View based on University of Washington research and an MVP built in a weekend that proves… | ||
| Building with the Geofencing API for mobile | Åsa Forsell, Patrick Leonard | 39m |
Mapbox’s Geofencing API (iOS/Android, experimental) lets apps load GeoJSON polygons/points/multipolygons, add or remove features at runtime, and observe entry… | ||
| Optimizing integrations with the Mapbox Navigation SDK | Michael Gerasymenko | 25m |
Delivery Hero integrates the Mapbox iOS Navigation SDK into its rider app, uses Xcode profiling and Sentry telemetry, and sees hangs spike — from moderate to… | ||
| Updates to the Mapbox Tiling Service: Faster, simpler, more cost-effective tiling | Chris Wong | 26m |
Mapbox adds three concrete MTS improvements: incremental updates (GA next week) lets users send delta updates instead of reprocessing entire tilesets, cutting… | ||
| Getting started with the Maps SDK for iOS | Emily Ryan | 42m |
Step‑by‑step iOS integration shows adding a Mapbox PK token to Info.plist, pulling the Maps SDK via Swift Package Manager, and creating a working map view in… | ||
| Design stories: Show & Tell | Nicolas Marty, Gill Gonnissen, Marko Ci, Aday González, David Schneider, Skyler Aspegren | 47m |
Ten short demos show concrete builds and outcomes: an AR solar app uses Mapbox 3D models to render 3D building shadows and claims 100,000 users with a 4.85 App… | ||
| Creating vector tilesets with the Mapbox Tiling Service | Chris Wong | 46m |
Uses Mapbox Tiling Service to convert two NYC open datasets — school points (shapefile) and parks polygons (GeoJSON) — into line‑delimited GeoJSON LD with… | ||
| Advanced map style customization in Mapbox Studio | James Piacentini | 50m |
A live Mapbox Studio demo builds an ebike app style end-to-end: adding custom layers and placing them into layer slots, showing a 10-minute isochrone from a… | ||
| Working with raster imagery and raster-arrays in Mapbox Tiling Service | Jake Borowski | 49m |
Shows how to take HRRR smoke files, upload 49 hourly files as sources, write a JSON recipe and publish a raster-array tileset with Mapbox Tiling Service using… | ||
| Atlas of Popular Transport: Democratizing mobility data | Alberto Meouchi | 25m |
Community teams map minibuses, tuk-tuks and shared vans across 16 cities (now a network of over 50 cities), collecting routes with low-cost GPS data… | ||
| Navigating to nourishment: Technology for food equity | Samuel Cole | 26m |
Helpline evolves from phone calls to SMS to a Mapbox map that couples a weighted recommendation model with live travel times, using Mapbox Directions API… | ||
| Building the NYC Public Space App with Flutter and Mapbox | Chris Whong | 36m |
A mobile app built with Flutter that consolidates disparate public space datasets into a single map, served from Mapbox Tiling Service and backed by Firebase… | ||
| Streamline data pipelines with incremental tileset updates in the Mapbox Tiling Service (MTS) | Chris Whong | 37m |
Mapbox Tiling Service now accepts incremental: true recipes so vector tilesets update by sending only changed features instead of reprocessing everything. The… | ||
| Beyond standard routing: Supporting fleet compliance and safety with Zone Avoidance in Mapbox | Shray Khullar, Moritz Förster | 51m |
Describes a concrete pipeline: prepare line-delimited GeoJSON with excludeRouting=true, upload it to Mapbox via the Mapbox Tiling Service + routing recipe API… | ||
| Building the future of smart cities: Abu Dhabi’s digital twin powered by Mapbox | Mohamed Said | 24m |
Abu Dhabi Mobility aggregates 70 billion data points daily into Fusion, a Mapbox‑basemap 3D digital twin that combines traffic, mobility, land use… | ||
| Mapping diplomacy: Visual storytelling for global impact | Paul Franz | 25m |
Six years of practice condensed into concrete techniques: interactive scrollytelling built with Mapbox GL JS and Mapbox basemaps, integrated full‑motion video… | ||
| Uplevel your map icons | Mira Ala-Kantti | 52m |
Shows how TripAdvisor converts static POIs into interactive multi‑art icons that lift map engagement by 70% and bookings by 3.5%, and how Amplify boosts event… | ||
| Geocoding deep dive: Tips & power features | Cris Byers, Jack Maddalena | 31m |
Mapbox Geocoding now offers unit-level geocoding (US only) and routable points in responses, with the playground demo returning four feature candidates and… | ||
| Mapping for impact: Scaling social good with DataKind and Mapbox | Sophia Harms | 26m |
DataKind standardizes a React front end on Laravel and uses Mapbox to turn prototypes into production: a CLI-born FEAT web dashboard now serves journalists and… | ||
| The art of place: Maps that merge design, data, and discovery | Phil Worland, Luke Decker | 28m |
Cecilian Partners shows a repeatable pipeline that turns spreadsheets, aerials, CAD and plat maps into mobile-first, branded maps using Mapbox Studio, GL JS… | ||
| Streamline address form input with Mapbox Address Autofill | Robert Florance, Mark Pothier | 35m |
Mapbox Address Autofill is a front end SDK that wraps the geocoding API to return live suggestions, auto-populate form fields using HTML autocomplete… | ||
| Clustering in the Mapbox Tiling Service | Andrew Sepic | 49m |
Clustering moves the heavy lifting into the cloud: MTS creates clustered and unclustered vector layers from line‑delimited GeoJSON, the demo uploads ~100k US… | ||
| Vibe coding with Mapbox GL JS | Chris Whong | 45m |
Live coding builds a React + Vite app with Mapbox GL JS using GitHub Copilot and Claude Sonnet 4 as coding partners; initial scaffolding errors are fixed… | ||
| When maps are mission-critical: How Watch Duty powers wildfire safety with Mapbox | Dave Merritt, Gabe Schine | 49m |
A wildfire alert app explains how a volunteer-led team scaled to 7M installs and 18M uniques by moving from Leaflet/MapLibre and S3 tiles to Mapbox, Postgres +… | ||
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