19 amazing maps from 2019

There was a whole lot of 😍 this year

By: Elijah Zarlin

It’s been nearly 10 years since Mapbox was founded in 2010. Since then, we’ve continued to invest in what can be done with our tools. But what makes that truly exciting is how it’s reflected back in the growth of the community of builders, and how they are using location tools to understand and explore.

That progression was on full, glorious display in 2019. This year, we saw more amazing #builtwithmapbox projects shared than ever. In a motorcycle? An electric concept car? An app to track all your deliveries? School projects? A driver-safety AR navigation app? A wine label-reading, AR sommelier? Offline data collection for humanitarian relief? Every U.S. building’s fire risk? All of it! It’s inspiring to see, so we wanted to shout out a few of our favorites. Have others? Share them on twitter with #mapping2019.

Jonni Walker’s turtle viz

This year Tableau introduced vector maps powered by Mapbox, so there were a lot of amazing map dashboards from the #datafam. But Tableau’s Jonni Walker was in a class by himself, firing off a map design and data viz opus, including this stunning visualization of threats to Sea Turtles in the Greek Oceans.

USA Today’s reverse mortgage foreclosure map

A few months after the release of this attention-grabbing report revealing racial disparities in predatory lending practices, Congress announced investigations and actions to protect senior citizens, citing the report directly during congressional hearings.