Mapzen, e thehiloeng ka 2013 'me ntlo-kholo e New York City, e ne e le k'hamphani e bulehileng ea sethala sa 'mapa e shebaneng le likarolo tsa mantlha tsa li-platform tsa geo, ho kenyelletsa ho batla (geocoding), ho fana ka (lithaele tsa vector), navigation/routing, le data. Likarolo tsa Mapzen li sebelisoa ke OpenStreetMap, CartoDB, le Remix, har'a tse ling. Likarolo, tse hlophisitsoeng ho GitHub, li ngotsoe ka JavaScript, Ruby, Java, le Python. Mookameli oa Mapzen, Randy Meech, pele e ne e le SVP ea boenjiniere bakeng sa MapQuest. Mapzen o ne a tšehetsoa ke Samsung Research America 'me ho ne ho tsebahala hore o hirile litsebi tsa 'mapa ho tsoa Apple. Mapzen e ile ea koala lits'ebetso mafelong a Pherekhong, 2018. Ka la 28 Pherekhong 2019 Linux Foundation e phatlalalitse hore Mapzen e tla fetoha Morero oa Linux Foundation.