Case Study: Urban Archive brings urban histories to life and expands museum partnerships with Mapbox

Urban Archive - Customer Case Study

Urban Archive is an immersive app that helps people explore cultural and historical archives across cities by combining maps, historical images, and place-based narratives. Facing the challenge of delivering rich, contextually relevant content across urban landscapes and devices, the team needed scalable mapping and 3D capabilities to connect past and present through the built environment.

By integrating Mapbox Tiling Service and the Mobile Maps SDK’s 3D features, Urban Archive delivers interactive historical tours, scavenger hunts, and user-contributed uploads tied to precise locations. The solution powers a digital collection of thousands of images and documents, and has opened new museum partnerships and opportunities to experiment with sharing collections in innovative, location-based ways.

Urban Archive

Sam Addeo

Director of Community and Development