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.

• 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.

$ pip install mapbox

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

• Command line interface: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-cli-py
• Javascript SDK: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-sdk-js