Case Study: Yahoo! JAPAN delivers hyper-local, minutely updated weather maps and reduces engineering time with Mapbox MTS

Yahoo! JAPAN - Customer Case Study

Yahoo! JAPAN, the country's leading maps and navigation app used by millions, faced the ongoing challenge of operating complex map production, location APIs, and rapidly updating weather visualizations that demanded significant engineering and infrastructure effort. Maintaining minutely-updating weather maps and bespoke rendering for the Japanese market slowed feature development and consumed resources.

By migrating their weather maps and other services to Mapbox.jp's MTS and leveraging Zenrin and partner data, Yahoo! JAPAN offloaded mapping infrastructure maintenance, implemented minute-by-minute time-series weather visualizations, and delivered faster, more hyper-local maps. The migration reduced engineering time and costs, improved the user experience, and freed the team to accelerate new, innovative services.

Yahoo! Japan

Soichi Takahashi

Unit Manager