Posts by Luke Seelenbinder

Two Leaders Join Stadia Maps and What This Means for the People Who Build on Us

Rob Yoegel joins as Head of Growth and Rick Myers leads Success and Support at Stadia Maps, bringing Linode's developer-first playbook to location infrastructure.

We Updated Our Changelog (Yes, Really)

Catch up on everything Stadia Maps shipped since mid-2024 — traffic-influenced routing, Geocoding v2 with hundreds of millions of new POIs, a 37M km² satellite imagery update, and new mobile SDKs. Plus, subscribe via RSS to stay current.

2026 Satellite Imagery Update: 37 Million km² at 30cm Resolution

The 2026 Alidade Satellite update: 37M km² at 30cm resolution, seamless mosaics for Japan, Nigeria, Mexico, and the UAE, and average imagery age of 1.6 years.

75 Million More Addresses: Expanding Geocoding Precision

75 million new rooftop-accurate addresses from OpenAddresses, 3 million Foursquare POIs, and structured address fields (house_number, street, unit) on the v1 API.

Traffic-Influenced Routing Is Here (Public Preview)

Live and historical TomTom traffic now powers routing, optimized routing, map matching, isochrones, and matrices across 80+ countries. Public preview.

Enriching Geocoding & Search: More Data, Smarter Deduplication, and Forward & Reverse v2

Geocoding v2 Forward and Reverse endpoints, smarter cross-source deduplication, multi-language fixes, and 8M more Foursquare OS Places POIs.

Introducing Stadia Maps Geocoding & Search v2: Supercharge Your Search

Geocoding & Search v2: 14M+ new places and addresses, faster responses, 80% lower autocomplete costs, and forward geocoding on every plan — including Free.

2025 Satellite Imagery Map Refresh

The 2025 Alidade Satellite refresh delivers 10x more 30cm imagery, 54% global coverage at 50cm, full 1.5m coverage, and imagery no more than a few years old.

Announcing Foursquare OS Places Beta

Foursquare OS Places joins Stadia Maps geocoding as a beta source: millions of new POIs, 250,000+ localized place names, and smarter fuzzy search.

Autocomplete Search for SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose

Add location autocomplete search to iOS and Android apps in a few lines of code with customizable SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose views from Stadia Maps.

Our SwiftUI DSL Is Joining the MapLibre Family

The MapLibre SwiftUI DSL, started at Stadia Maps, is now an official MapLibre project, bringing first-class SwiftUI support to MapLibre on iOS.

Fall 2024 Credit Schedule Updates

Increased matrix element limits, navigation aids with OSRM support for routing, and adjustments to the credit schedule.

Bulk Geocoding API Is Now Available

Geocode up to 5,000 addresses in one HTTP request: forward and structured queries, streamed results, and no extra credits or fees.

Official SDK for PHP is Now Available

The Stadia Maps PHP SDK brings geocoding, routing, elevation, and time zone APIs to PHP via Composer, fully open source and generated from our OpenAPI spec.

2024 Satellite Imagery Map Refresh

The 2024 imagery refresh brings vibrant global color, 4M km² more 50cm coverage, new 30cm imagery in major cities, and refreshed imagery portfolio-wide.

Announcing Cacheable Static Maps

Generate, store, and reuse static map snapshots for print, email, and offline use with the cacheable static maps endpoint — no custom license needed.

Announcing Version 2 of our Official SDKs

Announcing v2 of the official Stadia Maps SDKs for TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, and Python with improved type safety, new routing options, and elevation resampling.

Sponsorship of Two Open Data Projects

We continue our support of the open-source community by sponsoring two organizations: The OpenStreetMap Foundation and OpenAddresses.

Stamen Design × Stadia Maps

Stadia Maps and Stamen Design are pleased to announce a long-term partnership to build mapping services to make great maps accessible to everyone.

New SDK for Swift is Now Available

The Stadia Maps Swift SDK brings geocoding, routing, elevation, and time zone APIs to iOS with async/await support and full Xcode autocomplete.

Major Update to Our Geocoding and Autocomplete Search Data

City and postal code data for over 50 million US addresses improved for completeness, USPS-aligned formatting, and searchability.

Three New SDKs and MapLibre GL JS Search Plugin Are Now Available

Stadia Maps SDKs for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Kotlin, plus a MapLibre GL JS plugin that adds autocomplete search to maps in a few lines of code.

Generally Available: Geocoding & Autocomplete Search with SDKs

Stadia Maps Geocoding & Autocomplete Search APIs reach general availability: forward, reverse, and structured geocoding with SDKs for TypeScript and Python.

European Union-only Endpoints Are Now Available

Stadia Maps EU-only API endpoints are now live. Route all map tile and API traffic through EU servers for easier GDPR compliance.

Satellite Maps Are Now Available

Stadia Maps now offers satellite and aerial imagery tiles. Add up-to-date satellite basemaps to your web or mobile app via the API.

New Plans & Pricing in 2023

Stadia Maps 2023 pricing update: monthly credit-based usage replaces daily map views and API request limits, with per-plan feature access.

Map Style Improvements and House Number Layer

Stadia Maps map style update: improved highway shield rendering and house number display for cleaner, more accurate vector maps.

Announcing Simplified Account-Based Billing

Stadia Maps bills per account, not per property — one subscription covers combined usage across all your properties, with an account-level usage overview.

Announcing Improved Static Maps with Customizable Lines

Add customizable polylines to static map images to visualize routes, hiking tracks, and flight paths, plus a new Mumbai PoP for faster maps in India.

Announcing Time Zone APIs and a Documentation Refresh

Stadia Maps product update: the Time Zone API is now live, plus major improvements to our developer documentation.

Mapbox GL JS v2 Licensing and Stadia Maps

How the Mapbox GL JS license change affects developers, and why Stadia Maps + MapLibre GL JS is the best open-source alternative.

Product Update: Improved Tiles, a New Tier, and Stadia Maps News

Faster raster tiles, an improved Outdoors style, the Stadia Growth pricing tier, and Stadia Maps news from mid-2020.

Helping Businesses Deliver Location Experiences Before, During, and After COVID-19

How Stadia Maps helped businesses maintain affordable maps and navigation during COVID-19, with free or discounted services for pandemic-response projects.

Enhanced Documentation and Introducing mkjsfiddle

We've enhanced our documentation with JSFiddle integration and open-sourced the code we used to do it!

Announcing Elevation Data

Taking our services to the next level: elevation data at a point, along a path, and for elevation-influenced routing.

Mapping Infrastructure v2 Release

Stadia Maps infrastructure v2: upgraded tile servers, improved OpenStreetMap data pipelines, and faster global map tile delivery.