Mapbox Pros and Cons

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mapbox is extremely powerful, but there’s a steep learning curve – for new members of the team it can be challenging to get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We had some challenges supporting multiple disputed boarder in one map. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A bigger selectin of out-of-box dark map themes would have been nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some, but not a lot of, topographical detail in large upland areas or large forests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.