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<p>Mapbox is an American provider of custom <a href="/facts/Online_maps/NLCTRoQm">online maps</a> for websites and applications such as <a href="/facts/Foursquare_City_Guide/ffxmE9LP">Foursquare</a>, <a href="/facts/Lonely_Planet/8zgE7gcl">Lonely Planet</a>, the <i><a href="/facts/Financial_Times/0ndae2YU">Financial Times</a></i>, <a href="/facts/The_Weather_Channel/UDMp7ptY">The Weather Channel</a>, <a href="/facts/Instacart/8yEe1LmT">Instacart</a>, and <a href="/facts/Strava/ne63flYT">Strava</a>. Since 2010, it has rapidly expanded the niche of custom maps, as a response to the limited choice offered by map providers such as <a href="/facts/Google_Maps/cKQ0jaFg">Google Maps</a>. </p><p>By 2020, Mapbox switched to a <a href="/facts/Proprietary_software/9zcskxYL">proprietary software</a> license for most of the software it previously maintained as <a href="/facts/Open_source/7X9rCdz4">open source</a>. As of October 2020, Mapbox had a valuation of $1 billion. </p>