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Washington, D.C.-based company MapBox<\/strong> launched MapBox Satellite, a new addition to its customizable maps for users and businesses. The service adds a satellite imagery layer to the maps giving customers the option to have real images instead of a simple street map. <\/p>\n MapBox is using NASA<\/strong> and USGS<\/strong> public domain imagery, mostly collected through the Landsat satellites. Additionally, the company is also using imagery from USDA<\/strong>\u2018s National Agriculture Imagery Program <\/strong>(NAIP), originally set up to keep track of crop levels across the U.S. <\/p>\n The company, which launched in 2010, is the provider of maps for customers such as Foursquare, Pew Research, and NPR, for which it uses free map data from OpenStreetMap<\/strong>. Thus, MapBox\u2019s primary data is all coming from free sources, but the company is in charge of making those maps fit for its platform and customizable through a user-friendly platform. <\/p>\n MapBox explained that currently, the satellite imagery offered has a low zoom resolution. However, the company expects to increase the zoom levels next year. Landsat satellite imagery supports zoom resolution to approximately 100 feet and NIAP to approximately 3.3 feet. <\/p>\n In the future, the company plans to add High-Resolution Orthoimagery from agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <\/strong>(NOAA). This imagery is among the highest in resolution available; it supports zoom resolution to almost 1 foot. <\/p>\n MapBox Satellite is only available through the company\u2019s paid service plans.<\/p>\n \n Tags: Satellite Imagery, Earth Observation, NASA, NOAA Publication Date: 12\/05\/2012 Screenshot of MapBox Satellite that illustrates how satellite imagery from NASA, USGS and USDA can be customizable through its platform. Image credit: MapBox Washington, D.C.-based company MapBox launched MapBox Satellite, a new addition to its customizable maps for users and businesses. The service adds a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\")
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