Mapbox Boundaries 4.4 is now available, building on the success of Boundaries 4.3, which expanded coverage for Africa, Oceania, and island states, and introduced a new flat file format.

The Mapbox Boundaries 4.4 update significantly expands coverage in Asia, including 32 new boundary layers with over 21,000 new boundaries and 135 existing boundary levels updated with over 51,000 changes. Additionally, the updated tileset refines coastline details for several key regions, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Maldives. The updated data will help developers and businesses to create more accurate, insightful location-based applications tailored to the diverse Asian market. Read the full changelog here.

What is Mapbox Boundaries?

Mapbox Boundaries is a comprehensive, globally curated dataset of administrative, legislative, locality, postal, and statistical boundaries. Expertly crafted and meticulously verified, our data ensures precise overlays for maps, dashboards, and visualizations.

With over 5 million boundaries, seamless edge-matching, and lightning-fast tile services, Mapbox Boundaries sets the standard for high-quality and high-performance. We also make it easy to use. Lightning-fast and easy-to-integrate Tile Services can be added to a map with a couple of lines of code. Comprehensive documentation, with tutorials and code examples, makes adding beautiful visualizations a breeze. This means developers and customers can focus on what matters most — extracting actionable insights and driving effective business decisions.

Boundaries data format

Mapbox Boundaries data is accessible in two formats: vector tiles and flat file GeoJSON.

The long-standing vector tiles format offers rapid load times and seamless integration, while the flat file format enables deeper geospatial analysis. 

By combining boundaries data with proprietary information, Mapbox customers can unlock valuable benefits of the flat file format, including:

• Access raw geometry for operations like 'union' or 'intersect'
• Integrate Boundaries data seamlessly for high-volume use cases
• Combine geometry and metadata effortlessly
• Create derived datasets from proprietary data and Mapbox Boundaries details

Curious about Mapbox Boundaries flat file format? Watch this short demo to learn more:

Top ways to leverage boundaries

Boundaries for business intelligence 

For developers, product owners, data scientists, and analysts, Mapbox Boundaries works with the suite of Mapbox Search tools to provide the geospatial foundation for unlocking location-based business intelligence. Learn more in our recent webinar, "Talk to Your Data & See It on the Map: Conversational BI with Pyramid Analytics," featuring Cris Byers, Head of Product for Search at Mapbox, and Joe Beaubien, Vice President of Global Solution Engineering at Pyramid Analytics.

‍“We have Mapbox fully integrated into our platform. Most analytics platforms have some type of mapping partnership, and I know Mapbox is very popular in the BI space. Mapping helps enhance the business intelligence experience in several ways. I love using maps to drive analysis. I want to be able to have a very high-level view that shows me what's going on." -Joe Beaubien,VP of Global Solution Engineering, Pyramid Analytics

Boundaries for sales territory planning 

Optimize sales strategies by creating data-driven territories based on accurate administrative and postal boundaries. Mapbox solutions allow customers to directly embed hyper-local services, simplify territory planning, and visually manage dynamic rules and hierarchies. Explore how Varicent optimizes market coverage and drives revenue growth with Mapbox Boundaries or explore the interactive demo.

“Territory planning and management is the heart of the sales plan. The mapping capabilities embedded in our solution from Mapbox are really critical to our customers to be able to do that properly and it solves it by being a visual capability.” - Marcus Hearne, CMO, Varicent

Boundaries for interactive election maps 

Mapbox offers a comprehensive election mapping solution for global customers that includes in-depth global political boundaries. Leverage the most up-to-date boundaries data and customizable map design capabilities to transform complex election data into insightful, interactive visualizations. You can dig into the details of election data mapping in our recent webinar.

Request your free sample data 

Explore the expanded Boundaries data coverage using the Mapbox Boundaries Explorer or request free sample data today.