MapBox

MapBox Streets style (with contrast slightly increased)

MapBox (mapbox.com) is a company that creates different tools for styling and deploying maps as well as providing services for hosting maps. Many of these tools use OpenStreetMap data and involve large open-source efforts and MapBox is also a main contributor to the Mapnik renderer project. MapBox is supported by Development Seed.

Tools and products

• TileMill - a desktop map design and rendering studio
• Carto - CSS-inspired language for styling maps
• MBTiles - an efficient tile storage schema for mobile apps
• Maps on a Stick

Tilesets

They also provide various tilesets that can be used by customers:

• MapBox Streets - a general-purpose tileset (used by foursquare)
• MapBox Light - a monochrome tileset useful as a basemap for overlaying data on top

External Links

• MapBox and credit's licence
• MapBox GitHub repository