Mapbox Inc.
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 3.5 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.www.mapbox.com
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Sep 11, 2026
Andy HallidayHOST
Brian, one quick question.
Andy HallidayHOST
Did you use Mapbox for the globe projection?
Brian MaucereHOST
I think it is Mapbox.
Brian MaucereHOST
It's a free resource.
Brian MaucereHOST
I think so.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
And, you know, tech bosses immediately ran to union busting consultants like every boss does and dividing workers across roles across where they're based became a big part of union busting.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
And there's a very good example that we bring up in the book of this very promising union drive at Mapbox, an open source mapping company, where workers were focused.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
They were militant, trying to get recognition for a bargain unit that would be recognized under U.S. labor law.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
And in having that focus on on just U.S.-based workers.
Annie CartasGUEST
So that's really nice, no matter how big it was, actually.
Annie CartasGUEST
And another thing, as we switched over to using more of the vector tiles, we had originally been using Mapbox.
Annie CartasGUEST
I think we had the license for it even when it switched over to closed source.
Annie CartasGUEST
And that was fine.
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Annie CartasGUEST
That can be a pretty big change.
Annie CartasGUEST
And I'm curious what worked, what didn't.
Annie CartasGUEST
So we started with Leaflet to Mapbox because somebody higher up said we should.
Annie CartasGUEST
And then we had a little bit of a problem where we transitioned the libraries, but I think the original developer got a little too literal.
Jake LowGUEST
Corporations are using it in their products, governments are using it for all sorts of planning and disaster response sorts of purposes, humanitarian profit organizations, media, academia, sciences, OpenStreetMap also percolates downstream into lots of these plots that you might have used.
Jake LowGUEST
So OpenStreetMap data gets reused, remixed, and published in Esri, VaseMap products that you see in GISR Pro, Mapbox, Facevax, Dover Direct's project, ArcGIS Living Atlas, and also, of course, in lots and lots of instrument applications that you might have used.
Jake LowGUEST
All the trails are going to be acid-piked, or if you've ever called Eager or Glitch or an Amazon package, you've probably seen an OQR-based map, but you've certainly benefited from OQR-based data.
Jake LowGUEST
One of the biggest questions we get about crowdsourced open data is, why should I try this? How do you know that the data is legit, that people are putting that data into the map that we're talking about? And the answer is kind of, it's proven.
Christopher SeegerGUEST
Here I think I was looking at, oh, different backgrounds it can have.
Christopher SeegerGUEST
And then the other thing is you can connect to WMS maps or Mapbox map and other sources as well.
Christopher SeegerGUEST
And we can do quite a bit of that.
Christopher SeegerGUEST
Bigger deals, even the free version still lets you bring in your own GeoJSON or a shapefile into it, and we find that's important because one problem with Tableau Public I do have is if you have null data, then it doesn't show the county.
Trent WoloschukGUEST
Because there is other people and other competitors out there that use...
Trent WoloschukGUEST
Everyone uses Mapbox as a base map.
Trent WoloschukGUEST
Because they're the most forgiving.
Trent WoloschukGUEST
If you want to build something custom, they'll work with you and build it and allow you to do stuff like that.
Trent WoloschukGUEST
What you see is what you get.
Hana EriksonHOST
Yep.
Trent WoloschukGUEST
So that's why everyone uses Mapbox.
Trent WoloschukGUEST
But there is ways that you can tinker and tweak the quality of maps.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
[laughs] Um, that was, that was an amazing campaign, mostly because at the time people were like, "Can there be unions in tech? Will it, will these workers pull it off? Do they want it? What will they do with it?" [laughs] You know, that was, that was an amazing moment in, in the movement.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
And another, another moment that stands out to me before I let JS jump in was k- somewhat of a cautionary tale for the movement that we talk about in the book, which is Mapbox, you know, this open source mapping company infused with venture capital cash, uh, that basically killed their union drive, a very promising union drive.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
We as a movement took a lot of learnings from that moment, and one of the biggest learnings was that we should not be constrained by the norms of established labor organizing.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
So for instance, it's very normal for a group of organizers to focus on US workers because that is who, who is eligible to vote in a union election in the United States.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
Um, and that was one of the big things that undermined the union drive at Mapbox, was the international workers feeling left out of the loop and feeling, yeah, they, they weren't a part of this big moment, and management used that against the union.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
Yeah, so that was a campaign that really, at least for people inside of the movement who are following the movement, that was a big moment.
Paris MarxHOST
Can I ask you just briefly before JS jumps in with his, you know, when you're talking about that kind of US international divide, does that mean trying to work more, you know, as kind of US-based unions with more international ones if they are international companies to, like, create a movement that is crossing borders or, or what have you? Uh, what does that look like in, in practice, I guess?
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
And another moment that stands out to me before I let JS jump in was somewhat of a cautionary tale for the movement that we talk about in the book.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
which is Mapbox, you know, this open source mapping company infused with venture capital cash that basically killed their union drive, a very promising union drive.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
We as a movement took a lot of learnings from that moment.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
And one of the biggest learnings was that we should not be constrained by the norms of established labor organizing.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
So for instance, it's very normal for a group of organizers to focus on US workers because that is who is eligible to vote in a union election in the United States.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
And that was one of the big things that undermined the union drive at Mapbox was the international workers feeling left out of the loop and feeling, yeah, they weren't a part of this big moment and management used that against the union.
Clarissa RedwineGUEST
Yeah, so that was a campaign that really, at least for people inside of the movement who are following the movement, that was a big moment.
Paris MarxHOST
Can I ask you just briefly before JS jumps in with his, you know, when you're talking about that kind of U.S. international divide, does that mean trying to work more, you know, as kind of U.S. based unions with more international ones if they are international companies to like create a movement that is crossing borders or what have you? What does that look like in practice, I guess?