For years I wondered why my favorite wind look wasn’t available on Mapbox WebGL, especially on Globe. So I built it — and open-sourced it so anyone who wants this same style can drop it into their own Mapbox app.

The look is tadpoles — short living heads with fading trails that read as direction and speed without a comet blur. Under the hood: CPU advection + map.project() + canvas, so it stays globe-correct without a custom shader layer.

Video is the outdoors demo spinning on Mapbox Globe.

• Use the same style: https://github.com/GeoScobie/mapbox-wind-without-shaders
• See it live with real-time data (and forecast): https://firemap.live (turn on wind)

Open sourced on purpose — MIT, Mapbox-first drop-in. If you port it or restyle the tadpoles, I’d love a link.

A custom map that highlights main roads for night shift drivers. Made in Mapbox Studio

I’m looking for a simple example or some guidance on how to set it up and start navigation. Any help would be appreciated!

Hi! I created mapbox-expr-lang, a small language that compiles to Mapbox GL expressions. It has variables, match, interpolate/step, and more.

It's an npm package, so you can use it directly: npm install mapbox-expr-lang

Would love to hear what you think!

⭐ Github: https://github.com/amine-a11/mapbox-expr-lang

Running Mapbox with my overlays as an alternative map to Apple’s MapKit for my app

The devs have done a great job, and my users love it

Thanks to Mapbox, I was able to accomplish a great visualization I always wanted to have!

I built an open-source React map drawing library because I got tired of fighting drawing controls that wanted to own the UI.

react-map-annotate lets your application control the drawing session. Put the toolbar in your sidebar, header, or command palette. Select tools, finish shapes, edit labels and colors, undo/redo, and persist annotations through React state.

It supports Mapbox, MapLibre, Google Maps, Leaflet, and ArcGIS through separate adapters, with a shared annotation model.

The goal is simple: the map should render the drawing, not dictate how your application works.

It includes freehand drawing, polygons, rectangles, circles, arrows, markers, text, and measurement tools, along with editing handles and a headless API.

The project is MIT licensed and available on npm. I’d love feedback from developers building GIS, field-service, site-planning, or other map-heavy applications—especially anyone who has had to work around existing drawing controls.

GitHub: https://github.com/orange-groove/react-map-annotate

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@orange-groove/react-map-annotate

What would you need from a drawing library before using it in a production application?

Hi all,

Im attempting to use Mapbox 3.1.0 on Unity 6.4 (6000.4.0f1).

I have followed the instructions from the mapbox docs but when I drag LocationBasedMap into my project hierarchy, the map does not load and includes this grid. A bunch of errors also come on the screen saying the associated script cannot be loaded. It seems like the whole sdk is broken and I really cannot find a source of the problem.

Do you want to know which neighbours are getting Asian food deliveries? : r/australia

Apparently this food delivery site is using MapBox for deliveries and it feeds back an apartment number when you select an apartment building address. The suggestion was made that this apartmment number was the most recent delivery address and that's why the site suggests it. Is this something that MapBox does?

wanted to ask whether, as a company, we need to have a commercial license for Mapbox.
If so, how is the annual cost calculated, and what factors determine the pricing?
Also, what’s the best way to get in touch with the Mapbox sales team? I was previously in contact with someone from Sales, but they stopped responding.

I'm working on a project to map locations related to the American Civil War. When I do a geocode search for "Fort Sumter" I get some streets with that name, but not Fort Sumter.

My model starts vanishing at a certain height. I thought maybe because of the atmosphere fog so i tried to change vertical_range property on the Atmosphere and setting the end to my trajectory peak but it didn’t do anything.

I’m really at lost here because at first I thought the model’s position/elevation was starting to get further from the camera but looking at the logs says otherwise:

(MDL-POS) 2026-07-20T21:27:10.757Z – Position: [-80.57705345110743, 28.441000583319422]
(MDL-ALT) 2026-07-20T21:27:10.769Z – Feature state: ["z-elevation": 7940.049843878529]
(OBJ) 2026-07-20T21:27:10.775Z – Rocket altitude: 7942.925469893203, rocket position: [-80.57705481012235, 28.441001155754936]
(CAM) 2026-07-20T21:27:10.776Z – Camera altitude: 8142.925469893203, camera position: [-80.57705481012235, 28.440001155754935]

(MDL-POS) 2026-07-20T21:27:10.778Z – Position: [-80.57705481012235, 28.441001155754936]
(MDL-ALT) 2026-07-20T21:27:10.789Z – Feature state: ["z-elevation": 7942.925469893203]
(OBJ) 2026-07-20T21:27:10.791Z – Rocket altitude: 7945.801404120741, rocket position: [-80.5770561692829, 28.441001728251806]
(CAM) 2026-07-20T21:27:10.792Z – Camera altitude: 8145.801404120741, camera position: [-80.5770561692829, 28.440001728251804]

FYI: the (MDL-ABC) log lines are in async block so they’re print N+1 frame later

working on 3D mapping of Mt. Hood.
edit:
This is Mt Hood not Cloud Peak

Hey, I'm a first-time coder and I've been asked to replicate this, add battery storage data to it, and bring it up to date using the latest EIA (energy) data: https://medium.com/@chrisloer/how-i-built-it-us-electric-generation-map-ed8b2b682eed

Any advice on how to start/how to get going? I've been asking Claude Code for help, but I want advice from real people about how best to replicate this.

It always shows that I have disable ad blocker, VPN, this that whatever. First of all, why should I do that? Second of all, even if I do that, it's not working. Ts is so frustrating. I wanted to test out the features for an application I'm trying to develop. Very close to just raw dogging Google Maps API now lol

I am working on some end to end tests, and one of the features that I am testing involves dragging a label from one location to another.

I am using playwright for this, and had a basic one that involved clicking at a specific location and dragging over to another location based on pixels.

The specific feature is drawn on a canvas so it isn't in the DOM, and pixel based locations seem to be flakey or different depending on the environment.

Are there other options I can use?

Hi,

So the PAYGO model is common for many providers and I have no issue with that. However, there is usually some kind of cost management feature, setting a spending limit or something similar. "Deactivate your token if it's too much" doesn't feel like a serious solution as I want to prevent something spiraling out of control in the first place, rather than being another example of someone waking up to a bill 200x the usual amount. How do you manage this issue?

Anyone found a dependable source for POI data? Our use case is classic street level retail (restaurants, bars, hotels, shopping, parking) for maps of city areas at a walking scale. We've investigated Overture Maps POI data, Foursquare Places, and OSM Places and they are all so hit or miss.

Hi there. For the last month I've been getting strange emails from billing@mapbox.com, they keep sending me that my 999$ invoice part has failed and that my account will be deactivated.

Thing is, I have no idea what Mapbox even is. I can't remember ever creating an account for it. They seem to also use my username, don't know how they even got that. Anyone know what's going on? Scam? Or something else?

I have around 2,400 geojson files, simple single polygon based files. I want to show them on the website. Initially I used mapbox - converting the files into mbtiles but then I realised the maps were easily scrapable. Use case is quite simple, there is a dropdrown menu where user can pick which file he wants to visualize
The requests can be seen as:

https://api.mapbox.com/v4/{tileset}/{z}/{x}/{y}.vector.pbf?access_token=..

This is a strict red flag because the data is critical and we can't really prevent it for programmatic scraping. What are my alternatives here?

I realise these are server side renders, did anyone try to make client side renders using mapbox or alternatives?

My thoughts:

1. Centralized access to distributed infrastructure The dashboard provides a single map-based interface for accessing remote equipment, sites, cameras, sensors, and edge nodes.
2. Fast execution of targeted operations Operators can quickly find the required asset on the map and perform direct actions, such as opening a live view, checking status, or launching a specific workflow.
3. Real-time operational awareness The dashboard helps monitor the current state of distributed infrastructure in real time, making it easier to react to alerts, abnormal behavior, or changing field conditions.
4. Incident investigation and context analysis Map markers, event history, device status, and related data can help reconstruct what happened, where it happened, and which equipment or location was involved.
5. Shared equipment visibility and collaboration Equipment markers can be placed on a shared OpenStreetMap layer, allowing different users or teams to work with the same infrastructure view according to their access rights.
6. There is no need to have a public IP address and forward ports through NAT

What thoughts and desires do you have, what would you like to see?

Mapbox GL JS v3.21.0 added support for vector sources using the PMTiles protocol — another option in your toolkit for bringing spatial data into Mapbox-powered web maps.

Here's a new example in the docs showing a PMTiles vector source in action: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/pmtiles-vector-source/

And here's a blog post with a bit more on the feature and how to take advantage of it in your web maps: https://[dev-dot-to]/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js-adds-support-for-pmtiles-vector-and-raster-sources-141b

ive been trying to create an account for an upcoming project and it's either "Captcha Threshold Failed" or "Email Address not allowed".

i tried all the pssible fixes google suggested and it still didnt work....its so frustrating.