{"id":15136,"date":"2015-07-03T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15136"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:02:05","slug":"who-owns-the-digital-map-of-the-world-laura-bliss-citylab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/who-owns-the-digital-map-of-the-world-laura-bliss-citylab","title":{"rendered":"Who Owns the Digital Map of the World? \u2014 Laura Bliss | CityLab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week, Mapbox, a map development company based in Washington, D.C., announced that it has raised some $52.55 million in Series B funding, a sum CEO Eric Gunderson called the biggest ever for a mapping company. Mapbox doesn\u2019t exactly make maps, though. It builds towers of software that organize sets of geo-spatial data for other kinds of businesses\u2014real estate, transportation, agriculture, government, smartphone apps.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2015\/06\/who-owns-the-digital-map-of-the-world\/396119\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLast week, Mapbox, a map development company based in Washington, D.C., announced that it has raised some $52.55 million in Series B funding, a sum CEO Eric Gunderson called the biggest ever for a mapping company. Mapbox doesn\u2019t exactly make maps, though. It builds towers of software that organize sets of geo-spatial data for other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1964,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46375,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions\/46375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}