mapbox 0.10.1

A Python client for Mapbox services

A Python client for Mapbox web services

The Mapbox Python SDK is a low-level client API, not a Resource API such as the ones in boto3 or github3.py. Its methods return objects containing HTTP responses from the Mapbox API.

Services

• Directions examples, website

  • Profiles for driving, walking, and cycling

  • GeoJSON & Polyline formatting

  • Instructions as text or HTML

• Distance examples, website

  • Travel-time tables between up to 100 points

  • Profiles for driving, walking and cycling

• Geocoding examples, website

  • Forward (place names ⇢ longitude, latitude)

  • Reverse (longitude, latitude ⇢ place names)

• Map Matching examples, website

  • Snap GPS traces to OpenStreetMap data

• Static Maps examples, website

  • Generate standalone images from existing Mapbox mapids

  • Render with GeoJSON overlays

• Surface examples, website

  • Interpolates values along lines. Useful for elevation traces.

• Uploads examples, website

  • Upload data to be processed and hosted by Mapbox.

• Datasets examples

  • Manage editable collections of GeoJSON features

  • Persistent storage for custom geographic data

  • Note: The Mapbox Datasets API is in private beta. Currently, all end user requests to this API from outside of Mapbox will 404.

Other services coming soon.

Installation

$ pip install mapbox

Testing

pip install -e .[test]
py.test

To run the examples as integration tests on your own Mapbox account

MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN="MY_ACCESS_TOKEN" py.test --doctest-glob='*.md' docs/*.md

See Also

• Command line interface: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-cli-py

• Javascript SDK: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-sdk-js