making things. saying things.

Announcing Unified API Keys

New Mapzen API keys will work for all of our services.

Tangram Heightmapper

This view also reveals surface details which aren't easily visible even in a 3D model. By turning up the contrast on the data, it provides glimpses into the deep history of the landscape, hidden in small differences in the terrain.

A Routing Engine Of One’s Own: DIY Valhalla

Get a copy of Mapzen’s powerful Valhalla routing engine running on your own in just five minutes

How Microsoft built an AR app with OpenStreetMap, ElasticSearch and Mapzen

Making streets more accessible to the visually impared using Microsoft, ElasticSearch, Wikipedia, Mapzen vector tiles and Valhalla routing.

Everything you wanted to know about Mapzen Support but (shouldn't have been) afraid to ask

We have many ways for you to contact the Mapzen team, ask questions, and learn how to use our tools!

All of the Places

A tiny website for sharing links to places.

Ladders for Leaders, Summer 2016

Everything is even better than what I imagined when I first got an email for a phone interview with Mapzen through the NYC Ladders to Leaders summer internship program

Mapping with Bias

I like that idea that there might be an instrument to measure the motion – the velocity – of people’s understanding of place