MapBox Enables Amazing Custom Maps for Sites and Apps

"Up until now, a lot of mapping has just been boring," says Eric Gundersen, the CEO of MapBox, an ambitious startup that has made headlines for putting cartographic software, well, on the map

Those headlines featuring MapBox certainly haven't been boring, however. There was the news that Foursquare switched from Google Maps to use the MapBox Streets product, the $10 million in Series A funding MapBox recently received from the Foundry Group and a look at how MapBox is working with NASA to improve satellite imagery of the Earth

Around the world, hundreds of millions of users look at MapBox maps on some of the largest sites and across some of the most popular apps. With a client list including Evernote, Hipmunk, Le Monde, The Guardian, NPR and USA Today, there's a good chance you've already glanced at a MapBox-created map and, judging by the rapid growth the company is experiencing, a very good chance you will again very soon Read more...