This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Al Barrentine on 24 February 2016.

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Mapzen on 02 January 2018.

Mapzen will cease operations at the end of January 2018, and its hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018.

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Peter Richardson on 13 September 2016.

Mapzen recently released a whole lot of high-quality open-source terrain data in the form of a pair of global tilesets, using raster images to store the elevation and slope of…

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Matt Amos , Kevin Kreiser , David Nesbitt , Drew Dara-Abrams on 24 February 2017.

Since we announced our collaboration with the World Bank and more partners to create…

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Max Gardner on 07 September 2017.

Since we announced our collaboration with the World Bank and more partners to create the Open Traffic platform…

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Will Geary on 31 August 2017.

Urban planner Jarrett Walker emphasizes the importance of transit frequency:

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Severyn Kozak on 14 January 2015.

Update: This post was written a while ago, and many of these instructions for setting up Pelias are out of date. Please see our new installation instructions, which…

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Ian Rees on 05 June 2015.

Today we’re introducing Transitland, a community-edited data service aggregating transit networks across metropolitan and rural areas around the world. For a general overview, see Transitland…

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Mapzen on 12 October 2017.

At the 2 year anniversary of the launch of Mapzen Search, the hosted instance of the open-source Pelias geocoder, we can’t help but reflect on the…

This post was originally published on mapzen.com by Ian Dees , Seth Fitzsimmons on 04 December 2017.

Just over a year ago, we announced the Terrain Tiles service in cooperation with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team. The Terrain Tiles Public Dataset offers…