#1 most frequent
United States of America
46.1%43,355 installations of 94,031
What is Mapbox?
Mapbox is the location data platform for developers building custom geospatial features into mobile, web, and on-premise applications.
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Screenshot of Customized maps and location experiences can be developed for any application, across platforms.
Who Buys & Uses Mapbox
#2 most frequent
Canada
9.5%8,892 installations of 94,031
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.3%4,989 installations of 94,031
A multi functional tool to create visually compelling and accurate maps
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Mapbox to craft engaging map-based visualisations. We require a solution that can blend rich locational data with visually appealing designs, and we find that Mapbox helps us plot data and create maps easily. We also needed. We also get a lot of civic datasets that we need to geocode for better information display.
Pros
- build visual maps
- geocode location data
Cons
- better data for the indian subcontinent
- More user friendly interface
Return on Investment
- The viz has increased our readership
- Templates have cut down on time to create
Usability
Other Software Used
Bigin by Zoho CRM, Zoho Books, Descript, Interprefy, Infogram
Efficient and Powerful Visualization of Global Datasets
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The entire mapbox eco-system, from Datasets and Tilesets to Mapbox Styles, is unmatched technology to easily share interactive visualizations of large geospatial datasets. Specifically, we use Mapbox GL-JS and Mapbox Tilesets to drive the map at activity.youthmappers.org to visualize edits made to OpenStreetMap by YouthMappers. We choose mapbox-gl-js because of the support for the both globe and 3d projections.
Pros
- Solid User Experience
- Documentation and Examples
Cons
- Documentation & Examples. What is documented is great — but more examples would be welcome!
Most Important Features
- Tilesets
- Mapbox Studio
Return on Investment
- None
Happy Mapbox user!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Mapbox as our map visualization tool to show all the oil and gas well locations, as well as land grid information for the US Upstream oil and gas industry.
Pros
- Amazing data processing into tiles.
- Dynamic layer control based on zoom level.
- Easy to use interface to design beautiful maps.
Cons
- I'm not a huge GIS nerd, so for what we are doing it is pretty solid.
- The pricing model is a bit confusing, but the product is fantastic.
Most Important Features
- Map Designer interface
Return on Investment
- Mapbox let us quickly build the most user-friendly and nicest looking maps in our industry.
Alternatives Considered
Google Maps API
Great for small companies, super innovative and easy to integrate
Pros
- Great documentation! Most of the services, APIs, and products provided by Mapbox are very easy to implement. Sometimes as little as two lines of code need to be added.
- Great pricing to try out their services - it's very rare to pass their free tier of service in the alpha or beta testing stages.
- Provides some services that aren't provided at any other mapping or geography API/service company, like the Mapbox Navigation SDK.
Cons
- Some services, like routing, can be *very* expensive in production. A company can potentially spend thousands of dollars on routing calculations (API calls), and at that point, you should probably consider moving your routing engine/calculations to an on-premise server (self-hosted service).
- There is downtime. I periodically receive notifications of some of Mapbox's services being down. They have never affected us or our users, but I'm not so sure about other companies.
- Limited customization of maps on some platforms. On platforms like iOS and Android, it takes some long experimenting sometimes to get the maps to display and behave in the way your product exactly needs them to.
Return on Investment
- Mapbox is the only service that has all the products we need to release our product to the market. Without Mapbox, we would've spent far more time integrating multiple different map/geo services like Mapbox and HERE maps together.
- Mapbox was sometimes expensive in the testing period, and we would've definitely moved some of the services on-premise to save money if we had the time.
- Mapbox has functionality for traffic-aware routing in many countries, as well as matrix-structured routing data, which is what enables our service to function. Having all of this integrated within an API allows us to easily scale our service to multiple different cities/countries in a matter of days.
Alternatives Considered
Google Maps API
Other Software Used
Google Maps API, Poll Everywhere, Zoho Projects
Mapbox a great tool for great results
Pros
- One place to handle colors, fonts and style information.
- Easy to use dataset interface and editor.
- Immediate previews of the map style generated.
Cons
- The product is not always that easy to use, aimed at professionals understanding colors and palettes etc.
- Being a full cloud product it can be complicated working with the interface when your connectivity is not great.
- Tutorials and samples could be more visual and could cover more ideas on how to use Mapbox.
Return on Investment
- I don't think this is a fair question for me to answer. Apart from our time we have not invested anything into Mapbox - so from that perspective the ROI is great! Great returns without any investment!
