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This week Mapbox launched<\/a> a tool for the upcoming 2020 U.S. elections: Mapbox Elections<\/a>, \u201ca resource to help individuals, journalists, and organizations cover the elections, analyze the results, and build modern maps to display it all.\u201d Their first product is a dataset including U.S. presidential election results from 2004 to 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week Mapbox launched a tool for the upcoming 2020 U.S. elections: Mapbox Elections, \u201ca resource to help individuals, journalists, and organizations cover the elections, analyze the results, and build modern maps to display it… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,330],"tags":[1127,1422,358],"class_list":["post-1788303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gis","category-politics","tag-developer-tools","tag-election-maps","tag-mapbox","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789585,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/mapboxs-election-map-contest\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788303,"position":0},"title":"Mapbox\u2019s Election Map Contest","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Mapbox is holding an election mapping challenge. 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