History of MapBox. 1. Development Seed created a heat map of crime in DC[1] and wanted dark tiles. So 3 of the founders, Alex Barth, Jeff Miccolis, and Tom Mac

History of MapBox. 1. Development Seed created a heat map of crime in DC[1] and wanted dark tiles. So 3 of the founders, Alex Barth, Jeff Miccolis, and Tom MacWright created the Nice Map module[2] as a tile (WMS) management client for Drupal. 2. Development Seed uses Mapnik to manage their WMS server [3] 3. Development Seed started to share tile sets for maps hosted on AWS on Mapbox.com.[4] 4. The MapBox product is created and effort is put into it.[5] 5. They created Maps on a Stick and iOS client apps [6] 6. TileMill is released so people can create their own map tiles[7] 7. Development jumps from Drupal and the LAMP stack to Node.js and MabBox.[8] [1] https://developmentseed.org/blog/2008/nov/18/hey-thats-nice-map-new-custom-mapping-module-drupal/ https://developmentseed.org/blog/2008/nov/18/hey-thats-nice-... [2] https://www.drupal.org/project/nicemap https://www.drupal.org/project/nicemap [3] https://developmentseed.org/blog/2008/dec/10/get-over-first-hump-making-completely-custom-beautiful-maps-install-mapnik-ubuntu/ https://developmentseed.org/blog/2008/dec/10/get-over-first-... [4] https://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/dec/16/us-congressional-districts-tiles-and-great-american-hackathon/ https://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/dec/16/us-congressiona... [5] https://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/feb/24/mapbox-world-tiles-get-update/ https://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/feb/24/mapbox-world-ti... [6] https://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/oct/02/maps-stick-version-2-released/ https://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/oct/02/maps-stick-vers... [7] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/announcing-tilemill-modern-map-design-studio-powered-open-source/ https://www.mapbox.com/blog/announcing-tilemill-modern-map-d... [8] https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Development-Seed-abandon-Drupal https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Development-Seed-abandon-Drupa...