# Mapbox Reviews **Vendor:** Mapbox **Category:** [GIS Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/gis) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 41 ## About Mapbox Mapbox is the live location platform preferred by over 4 million developers. Mapbox provides precise location data and flexible developer tools that equip any business to add geospatial features to their applications and enhance operations with location intelligence. Customers span automotive, logistics, business intelligence, retail, travel, data visualization, consumer apps, weather, IoT, geospatial analysis, and beyond. With the leading map rendering technology for web and mobile, Mapbox is known for providing highly performant, customizable, reliable, and scalable location services trusted by developers, companies, and business leaders. Mapbox services include global map data, real-time traffic, geocoding and address search, and routing and directions for navigation. Build with Mapbox via APIs, code libraries, SDKs, and comprehensive developer documentation. Designed for businesses of all sizes, Mapbox is free to start building with and pricing is based on monthly usage, no upfront licenses or contracts required. Mapbox is a global team of 700+ with offices in Washington D.C., Helsinki, and Tokyo. Mapbox was founded in 2010. Today, Mapbox powers the location intelligence of platforms, apps, and brands around the world. ## Mapbox Reviews ### 1. TruckX Elevates Fleet Operations with Mapbox Maps **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clarissa L. | Director of Product Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox’s flexibility in customisation and frictionless rendering across devices have helped us at www.TruckX.com provide the best cartographic solutions for our fleet management platform. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Mapbox is extremely powerful, but there’s a steep learning curve – for new members of the team it can be challenging to get started. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox enables TruckX to deliver rich, functional maps that enhance the user experience. This helps us be a top technology leader in the ELD Compliance and Fleet Management market ### 2. An essential part of any mapping application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The map load times are snappy, there are rich customization options and base map choices, their pricing is generous and fair, and their team has been helpful along the way. And since the Mapbox team is always developing new features, we get to inherit important new functinoality on an ongoing basis. It's also easy for our development team to implement features using their APIs and for our integrating partners to use our maps built on Mapbox too. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The geocoding API is not always as accurate as others, such as Google's. It occasionally returns results that are not what the user would expect and doesn't have as many location names, such as small villages. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox provides our mapping technology that is the basis for one of our core offerings, our maps of changing climate conditions. It is easy for us to develop, easy for our users to use, load times are fast, and our integrating partners are easily able to develop their own applications using our Mapbox maps. ### 3. Great product and a willingness to help out people in the educational/not-for-profit space **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox's mapping tools are Best in Class at the moment, if you are serious about making powerful, beautiful, configurable maps that load quickly and look great. They have more options than anyone else out there, and actually seem to care about innovating in the mapping space (unlike Google Maps, which has been practically dormant for a long time now). Their Mapbox Studio tool makes it effortless to change the appearance of map features, and their satellite tiles are beautiful and in high definition. Mapbox has been on the cutting edge of vector-based mapping technology, which is rapidly becoming the standard for good reason. Beyond this, their Community & Social outreach has been execllent. I have been a heavy user of Mapbox maps since 2018. I run a popular website (NUKEMAP, a nuclear weapons effects simulator) that can have extremely variable traffic spikes depending on world events and media coverage, and is also entirely not-for-profit (with no advertising, etc.) and run on a shoestring budget. I switched to Mapbox from Google Maps because it became clear that Google was too interested in monetizing their interactions with people like me to be usable, and their prices were killing any ability to have a widely-used website that was not focused around generating profit. Mapbox has been willing to work with me, and has worked to find plans that would fit my budget, given the nature of the work, and has given me huge amounts of assistance and patience when I have been in between sponsors. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The only issue I have had with Mapbox is that their out-of-the-box API tools are not particularly suited to the kinds of operations that one might want to do, like drawing dynamic vector circles in my case. However their API is very flexible and with a little elbow-grease, you can make it do whatever you want, and it runs extremely fast no matter what. So while it might take a little more effort to get things up and running, once you have them up and running it will look good, and run fast. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Mapbox to visualize spatial data, specifically to show people what the effects of nuclear weapons would be on areas they have been to. To do this, I am using their vector tile service, their satellite tiles, and their raster tiles as a fallback option for users without WebGL (which for a global app is still quite a lot). Since 2018, when I switched to Mapbox, NUKEMAP has had over 40 million users globally, including massive traffic spikes whenever world events have caused people to seek out information about nuclear weapons (e.g., between February and June 2022 saw nearly 9 million users as tensions between NATO and Russia increased following the Russian invasion of Ukraine). Being able to provide this kind of factual information in an intuitive and good-looking map interface is core to my educational mission, and Mapbox's tools have made this possible. ### 4. Awesome map features for web applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abel F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** What I love about Mapbox is the amount of features they provide. Mapbox Studio is just an incredible tool. As Mapbox' ecosystem allows you to upload your own data, the possibilities are just infinite! In my specific case, I had to integrate Mapbox in a React application, and the documentation for doing it was quite extensive and detailed. I had never integrated a map-related tool before, and it has been really easy to find all solutions to the problems I have had. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The main thing I do not like about Mapbox is related to their satellite imagery. A lot of regions have not been updated for too many years. And with too many years I mean that even the 'shape' of the agricultural fields has changed and does not correspond to reality anymore. Plus, in some areas clouds cover thousands of square kilometers (e.g., east coast of Brazil). Both reasons obliged us to look for other satellite imagery, so we could still load it within Mapbox GL library. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox is allowing my company to develop an awesome tool for agricultural field management. Using Mapbox GL library in combination with Mapbox GL Draw opens a whole universe of possibilities with regards of map-interacting web applications. ### 5. Excellent mapping service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Divaldo C. | Team leader, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Free mapping service up to at least 200,000 requests per API. I have been using it for years and find it to be an excellent service. Simple to use, I never had to contact support, I always used the documentation and it always worked. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** I've been using it for years and I don't see any aspect that I don't like, what they could do is increase functionality with reverse geocode, it would be spectacular. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** For the system I have integrated, MAPBOX is integrated as one of the alternative visualization maps. Customers on my system can choose which of the maps they want to use and mapbox is used with some frequency. ### 6. Mapbox for Geologists and **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox is used in our React Native app which serves the Geology community in field and lab research. We do like the easy intergration and built in tools Mapbox provides "out of the box". Mapbox also has rich, detailed, and mostly updated tiles which are very valuable in the field. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** While Mapbox used to support React Native directly it has now moved over to the community. This has been fin so far but there have been questions brought up in the past which would have been nice to deal directly with Mapbox. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox is providing a interactive map and tools that our users can use to plot features down and add location info. This visual representation is a great tool. ### 7. Instrumental in visualizing the global reach of computer science education **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dani L. | Product Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** We use Mapbox in numerous parts of our website to dispaly different maps for each case. Mapbox makes displaying complex data easily accessible and visually compelling. Their technology has also allowed us to tailor maps to diverse global audiences, respecting regional sensitivities. This adaptability has been crucial in our mission to expand computer science education to every student in every school. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** We had some challenges supporting multiple disputed boarder in one map. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox allows us to display information in a format that displays a lot of imformation in a visually engaging format. This keeps users interested in engage with our site. ### 8. Ideal data for support park management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandro F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The Mapbox Movement data was amazing with respect to coverage, simplicity, and accuracy in support of local governments and parks. The uniqueness of the products we could derive from the Mapbox movement data increased our appeal to clients and help us grow in the field of park management. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The data was extremely powerful, but limited in what I could derive. There were some slices of the movement data that would have been helpful but unavailable. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox is solving our ability to monitor human activity in parks. The frequency and activity of people in parks is otherwise a black box, which Mapbox shines a light into. ### 9. Outstanding static map choice for Ride Alert **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The Static Images API delivers fast, beautifully rendered maps to help cyclists locate upcoming group rides in their city, thanks to the efforts of the Social Impact team at Mapbox, who have made it possible for community-focused apps like Ride Alert to exist and thrive. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** A bigger selectin of out-of-box dark map themes would have been nice. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides the endpoints for rendering of static map images. ### 10. Great mapping product for our free wildlife-finding mobile app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Ease of implementation and integration with our mobile app showing locations and visit detail for 600 birding/wildlife sites across Scotland. The maps on our app have about 0.25m views per year and performance has been impressively reliable. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Some, but not a lot of, topographical detail in large upland areas or large forests **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a mapping solution with sufficient detail to help wildlife enthusiasts in the field to navigate to and around new locations, often in unfamiliar countryside. We wanted one which would allow seamless zooming and panning and could take markers with all data coming from a fairly straightforward CMS. ### 11. Mapbox search and autocomplet **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David M. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox has good API documentation and a thorough product offering. It was very simple to setup and test various APIs. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Mapbox's places and auto-complete was less forgiving for spelling mistakes and finding cross streets than google maps auto complete. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Auto-complete, base layers ### 12. Navigating New Horizons with Mapbox **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayur J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** I like about Mapbox is its stunning visual design. The maps are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional. The attention to detail in the map elements, such as road markings, landmarks, and terrain, creates an immersive and engaging navigation experience. Whether I'm exploring a new city or planning a road trip, Mapbox provides me with a visually appealing and intuitive interface to navigate through unfamiliar territories. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** One area where Mapbox could improve is in terms of its pricing structure. While the platform offers a generous free tier and flexible pricing plans, the cost of scaling up can be a concern for some users, particularly for businesses with extensive mapping needs. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Traditional mapping platforms often provide limited customization options, restricting users' ability to tailor maps to their specific needs. Mapbox addresses this by offering extensive customization capabilities through Mapbox Studio. Mapbox excels in providing real-time and dynamic data, such as traffic updates, weather conditions, and public transportation information. By integrating this data into their applications, businesses can offer accurate and up-to-date information to their users. ### 13. Unleashing the Power of Maps with Mapbox **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thibault L. | User Experience Design Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** I recently had the opportunity to work with Mapbox, and I have to say, I was thoroughly impressed by its capabilities. One of the things I liked best about Mapbox is its flexibility. With a wide range of customization options, it was easy to create maps matching my project's specific needs. I also appreciated the variety of pre-built map styles available, which allowed me to put together a polished, professional-looking map quickly. Additionally, the user-friendly interface made it easy for me to navigate the various tools and options available. Overall, I found Mapbox to be a compelling and versatile map framework that I highly recommend to other developers and designers. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** While I generally had a positive experience with Mapbox, there were a few things that I did not like. One issue I had was with the pricing structure, which can be pretty expensive for large-scale projects. Additionally, I found the documentation to be a bit limited and hard to navigate. These issues were not deal-breakers but were something to keep in mind when using Mapbox. Overall, I would still recommend Mapbox as a powerful and flexible map framework. However, I would advise users to be mindful of the cost and keep some patience while exploring the documentation. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox solved my problem of creating visually appealing and functional maps for my project. Its wide range of customization options and pre-built map styles allowed me to create maps that perfectly matched the design and functionality needs of my project. Additionally, the user-friendly interface and easy-to-use tools helped me to create maps quickly and easily without the need for extensive programming knowledge. This saved me a lot of time and effort, allowing me to focus on other aspects of my project. Overall, Mapbox was a great solution for me, and I would highly recommend it to other developers and designers. ### 14. Mapbox is incredible! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** As a developer, I absolutely love using Mapbox and mapbox-gl-js to create unique maps and location-based applications. The flexibility and customization options offered by Mapbox are unparalleled, allowing our team to create unique and visually stunning maps that perfectly fit my needs. What's even better is the amazingly responsive performance of mapbox-gl-js. It enables us to create web-based maps that render incredibly fast, providing users with a seamless and fluid experience. I also love the fact that we can create an immersive 3D globe, taking our maps to a whole new level. It's also possible to add 3D models using three.js, which is absolutely fantastic. With Mapbox we can easily manage our datasets, as well as access a variety of third-party data sources. Mapbox also offers tileset management features, which allow us to create custom map tiles. These features are very helpful, especially because we are frequently creating many different products tailored to specific regions or with unique features or data layers. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** While mapbox-gl-js is relatively easy to use and offers extensive documentation, there is still a certain level of technical expertise required to take full advantage of its features and capabilities. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox allows us to customize and create unique and visually stunning maps quickly and easily. The fact that Mapbox is a cloud-based platform also means that it takes care of all the hosting and scaling for us, which frees up time to focus on creating truly amazing maps and location-based applications. ### 15. Great mapping tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fabian B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox is an important mapping tool for our needs. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** One area for improvement lies in the complexity of Mapbox, as we haven't fully explored all of its capabilities **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to visually represent locations across various categories on a map while providing further information for each location. ### 16. Great service and friendly people! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** I love that they have a great app, and that they help support non profits. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Nothing i can think of. Everything is great! **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** They help us provide map data for find a spring foundation. ### 17. Feature-filled, flexible, and powered by a wonderful team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** We love the versatility of the platform, which allows us creative control over every aspect of mapping. (We also love their generous pricing!) **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** We have nothing negative to report about our experience with Mabbox. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a versatile and agile platform for GIS-based data visualization, which offers great creative freedom and minimal overhead compared to other mapping platforms. ### 18. Risk Factor Integrations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** In working with Mapbox we have found the perfect mixture of available technology and helpful guidance to ensure the deployment of the right technical solution. Our account rep truly cares about our business and our goals and acts accordingly which is refreshing. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** I don't think this category really applies to our experience with Mapbox :) **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox allows us to visualize our data in a compelling way for users to instantly understand what we are trying to convey. ### 19. Very good mapping tool! Too bad I can't customize it 100%. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aïcha B. | Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Very easy-to-use tool with nice designs! **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Although there are a lot of customizable settings, I didn't manage to fully customize my maps (street colors, etc.). **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Mapbox to locate properties for sale and points of interest in the area. Mapbox allowed us to choose the items to display and customize them. ### 20. Powerful and beautiful maps **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Customization and dev experience are top notch. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Offline integration can be challenging with GL-JS **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Custom maps and visualizations for an offline mobile app. By far the best dev experience in online mapping. ### 21. Underrated Map for development use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roshan R. | Mobile Application Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox compared with the different map integrated platforms is one of the best in its pricing and has one access to every feature that can be enabled during integration. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Migration of data can be an issue if the developer is not able to meet the requirements or if the support team doesn't give any further assistance on enabling the feature. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** While integrating MapBox as a proof of concept, it made a promising platform for a big business that has more than 25K Users per visit. This made the business and the integration effective and sufficient on every platform. ### 22. A heavy-duty map maker capable of producing some really beautiful maps. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anirudh K. | Accountant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The dataset reader is quite powerful. It recognizes almost any format. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Using text on the map studio is difficult to control. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Construct data-driven maps such as heatmaps, bubble maps, etc. Having an easy online GUI has made this easy. ### 23. Great Geographical AR Tool for Unity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The custom data and custom model for buildings. For instance, we used our green roof data as an additional layer on top of the default building layer. Point of Interests is very helpful, because we can use our data and prefabs to render certain data visualization. For example, we used our tree data set and used Point of Interests to show the trees in New York. We made our prefab of the trees and it was pretty great result. The integration with AR Core and AR Kit makes it easy to use as AR product **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The documentation is handy and user friendly but there is not enough official tutorials, and there is no API references of the sdk. The most tutorial I learned was from Youtube tutorials. Also, when adjusting the zoom level, the buildings lost is not satisfying. When you set the zoom level to some certain level, part of the buildings are just disappear. This may because to keep the frames when running so that it's not too heavy for the device to render so many buildings, but the lost buildings are too many and not expected. Besides, when adding multiple maps, it is still heavy to load. Maybe there is some way to reduce the cost like optimize the shader and reduce the mesh of the buildings. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** Mapbox is a great tool for making geographical or geological products including AR, Games and data visualization **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were building a AR urban data visualization by using Mapbox. Mapbox has a great default building dataset, and we can also use our data and customize the shader on the buildings. It is integrated with AR Core and AR Kit, so no need to worry about those. ### 24. Love mapbox! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Honestly i'm a big fan of customizable UI's and graphics. So being able to change the smallest details of how maps are presented is AWESOME. I love it. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Nothing to dislike. Its a great cloud based software and even their free trails are super powerful. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** get it! its awesome for so many things. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for visualizations in tools such a tableau. It adds such a cool feel to maps ### 25. Misleading and intransparent sales team **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** It was easy to set up, but we find this to be the case with any JavaScript based mapping solution **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** We have used Map box for over one year. We are a large software company and pay a significant amount of money to use this every month. They have contacted us about a price increase. I contacted their sales to establish what the new price would be. They reassured me that the price would drop for 3/4 customers but, when pressed further, then went on to tell me “I cannot tell you what your new price will be exactly.” We believe that this sales strategy to be fundamentally misleading. Our best guess is that the cost will increase by a factor of 10. Given that there are so many map providers, I would advise anyone considering Mapbox to seek an alternative with a more transparent and honest sales team **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** We put a map on a website ### 26. Very cool for customizing tilesets. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Levi M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The customizability of shapefiles, geojson, and kml files is pretty awesome. The ability to transform the map into an interactive game using mapbox's unity sdk is pretty cool. I am excited to explore mapbox's capabilities deeper in the near future. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Would be nice if it accepted zipped tile directories. Must use MBtiles or geotiff for raster map tiles. Wish you could do more than 15 tilesets on one map style. Stroke thickness is set to 1 px for vector tilesets, would be nice to have more customizability. Also would be nice if they had a .dxf to shapefile converter. Must use arcgis or other software to go from illustrator to mapbox. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tileset hosting. Map customizability and vector tile customizability. Ability to rotate the map. ### 27. Great, other than the new pricing model **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon I. | Web Developer, Media Production, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2017 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Ease of use, documentation and the API is very clean and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The pricing model is made so that if your map gets any kind of traction on a blog or news website you're bound to be looking at a $500 - 1,000 bill. Maps are charged per view. A view is 4 tiles on the screen. So most likely as soon as a user loads it and pans they've already used 2 views. Not the easiest model to relay to clients since it's hard to estimate the amount of map views they will actually use, since one viewer could pan around a lot of the map and use 50. Someone else may not pan at all and use 1. Other than PAYG model there is only one other, Commercial. Which is $500/month. Instantly pricing out most small agencies. There did used to be about 3 levels all with different map view quotas, which was better for scaling up your production pipeline. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** Pricing model is stupid - if you contact support they just try to upsell you **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating bespoke map based content pieces is really quick and easy. ### 28. Amazing service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Destiny K. | Manager of Deliveries, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Really great visual maps with plenty of customization. Really takes your website to a next level. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Website can be tricky at times to use, specifically with the coding. I feel like I love the maps but am not utilizing them to their full potential. A helpful youtube tutorial would be AWESOME to see all of the possible options. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** Seems to be pretty one of a kind. Really unique, cool product! **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mapbox helps me while I am web designing to make data more interesting and visual. Pages which feature a mapbox maps tend to have more viewrs altogether. ### 29. Mapbox Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin S. | Marketing Optimization Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox has a comprehensive interface that allows user to design quality maps with little prior skills in CSS **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The map designs did not fit the needs of the project, forcing us to consider other products. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Mapbox in a testing phase to see if we could implement the product to visualize excursion locations at each of our ports. ### 30. Great interfacing app! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandi M. | entrepenuer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** I could appreciate the small memory space the app used. It also has very easy features and is very applicable to its purpose. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The app crashed several times before the update so now I have no issues. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** It's a great program **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to get my employees to my customers while keeping dispatch informed at all times. ### 31. Very useful service with a great mission. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Easy to use and good documentation. Customer service is quick to respond and they're very involved with the humanitarian community. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Some limitations related to number of tilesets allowed in map. But able to find workarounds **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** Great support and service in the non-profit and humanitarian sector. They recognize funding limitations for many organizations and are able to work within a broader community sharing tools and resources. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Utilized for humanitarian purposes and sharing data. Tile services are extremely useful for hosting imagery and other data. ### 32. Mediocre Mapbox **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The ease of access for both the users as well as customers once the project is complete. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** It is not very maluable as software programs go. It has technical limits that were traded away for ease of use. It is not a good mix for my use. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** Put it through a trial period just as you should anything else. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Other than it's internal simplicity, I can gain more from different software programs. ### 33. Mapbox seamless at making maps for your customers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Ability to import map data, such as neighborhood lines **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The tools to draw/do graphic design updates aren't the best. It's best to export into photoshop. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create customized maps that share information for our customers ### 34. Very pleasant **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Fund-Raising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** I like the very easy user approach and color oriented direction from sectiin to section, good navigation and direction. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** I have not found yet what i dislike about the website. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** Do trial period see if you like it, test it out gradually. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** The accuracy have increased and speed of getting tasks done and organizing in order through out the day. Helps quite a bit) ### 35. Easy to Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The interface is fast and easy to learn. All my tasks are now done in a breeze. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Had to transition to from other platforms. Not used to that. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** Take your time to really learn this product. It becomes easier as time goes on, so don't get frustrated. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multitasking has become a breeze. Once I transitioned, it became very easy to learn the product. ### 36. Mapbox- Creating custom maps and integrating live traffic. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Able to create custom maps for site and apps. Create live traffic. It is really easy to use. Can be edited using website. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** A little bit sluggish sometimes but works well. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** I recommend using Mapbox for creating live maps, and integrating live traffic updates. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating maps for office sites. This streamlines the route travelling between sites. ### 37. Mapbox - best maps for startup **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan R. | Senior Java Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Customize styling of map and beautiful features. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Slowly implementing features to work with statistics and public API **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** We creting mobile local guides for travel ### 38. MapBox - a cartographers take **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox is a powerful mapmaking tool for expert and new mapmakers and is intuitive and simple to use. With each update it gets better and better. It takes the coding headache out of styling and allows quick map production and export. Its focus on design is the reason it stands out above other map-building platforms. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** There is very little to improve. In my experience with the product it has done everything i have wanted. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** I cannot praise Mapbox enough. It has broken all boundaries when it comes to making maps. Its easy to use and continues to surprise me every day with new features and advances in its capabilities **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Im in the map making business and it takes the map design coding away so you can quickly make beauitful maps for web, ### 39. Great platform for creating data visualizations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas A. | Senior Data Scientist, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** I've used Mapbox for creating map-based data visualizations, primarily via Mapbox Studio. I like the ease of use and ease of publishing online for embedded visualizations, as well as the options for customizing the style of the maps. I'm also very impressed with how responsive the maps are for the viewer. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** Creating your own map layers and merging them with Mapbox data can be a little clunky and take some getting used to. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data visualization. The primary win is for a non-geo-expert like me to create professional-looking visualizations for communicating with colleagues and customers. ### 40. Excellent Mapping Tool, Limited Utility for Print **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan C. | Designer / Tech Studio, Architecture & Planning, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** Mapbox offers a relatively straightforward interface, and great map tile sets, out of the box. With a little knowledge of CSS, map styles can be edited easily. The ability to export high-resolution maps to a raster image format is essential. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** There is limited control over scale when exporting maps for print applications. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** Great and easy for simple mapping projects, but there is a steep learning curve if you want more customization. **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used MapBox to create custom maps for a print guidebook. ### 41. Great team, great product, great service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler B. | Web Software Developer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Mapbox?** The Mapbox team is top-notch. They are always ready to answer questions, provide support, and even take requests for bugfixes and new features. During our trial period, they even volunteered to create a custom map style just for our company, which looks stunning. Mapbox.js and Mapbox-gl-js are easy to learn and use, with large communities around them and a long list of examples. Finally, the Mapbox service itself is very affordable when compared with Google Maps, especially now that Google hiked up their prices. **What do you dislike about Mapbox?** The only thing I dislike about Mapbox is the fact that WebGL support is still spotty on some browsers, meaning you have to engineer a fallback to Mapbox.js (the old library) if you want to have robust browser support. Since Mapbox.js and Mapbox-gl-js have totally different APIs, this means you will be writing your map code twice. Also, the geocoding accuracy isn't all the way up to Google's level yet, but for most data this won't be a problem. **Recommendations to others considering Mapbox:** The two main issues are browser support and geocoding accuracy. Do some tests on their geocoder using a trial account, and run some analytics to see how many of your users are on IE9 and IE10. If you are pleased with those two situations, then I highly recommend Mapbox to everyone! **What problems is Mapbox solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our company could have paid hundreds of millions of dollars extra to Google after their price hikes. Instead, we are switching to Mapbox and rewriting our map code. 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