Now, however, the company is starting to open up a bit more and it’s launching a beta of its Maps API for developers who ... the company has partnered with Mapbox, an OpenStreetMap-based mapping ...

Mapbox or Boundless. A sampling of public-sector officials weighing in on the new Google Maps API terms: “We use the Google API to provide Street View photos for our myCambridge app, but that's ...

In a blog post, the company explains that it has done away with using the Google Maps API in favor of OpenStreetMaps on Foursquare.com, given a face via MapBox. “When we initially began looking ...

But that means competing with Google. Mapbox is more customizable than Google Maps, but it's an open question whether such advantages will be enough to overcome the search giant's deep pool of ...

Since foursquare started it had been using Google Maps API. The company says it noted ... The map images foursquare is using come from a startup called MapBox. This company was chosen because ...

Mapbox, the OpenStreetMap-based mapping platform that lets app developers incorporate maps into any app, is adding another feature to better compete against the likes of Google Maps, ESRI and ...

MapBox uses OpenStreetMap data for its own paid map products, including the maps it provides for Foursquare’s website. "We want new users to be able to start mapping within minutes." Screenshot ...

MapBox Inc. has big ambitions to rival Google Maps with an open-source solution. The company of about 35 staff may be small, but it has just raised $10 million in Series A funding from Foundry Group.

If you’re an iOS developer that uses maps in your app, but you’re unsatisfied with the level of customization that Apple’s MapKit allows, you’ll be excited by the MapBox news today.