Knight News Challenge update

| 08.27.10

This is my first post on our new Citytracking project, which is being supported by a grant from the Knight News Challenge. We’ve been working on it for a good part of August.Thus far it’s been primarily talk and thinking and writing, working on the overall structure of the project, trying to get a handle...

Announcing Polymaps

| 08.20.10

I posted some early examples last week, and SimpleGeo announced this morning the result of our collaboration with them over the past few months: Polymaps.org. We’ve been working with Stamen to provide visual analysis of the huge datasets that we’re working with, and how people can communicate this data in sophisticated ways. A first step...

Announcing Prettymaps

| 08.12.10

Close readers of Aaron’s blog and flickr stream know that he’s been thinking for some time about making maps out of things that people do, whether it’s geotagging photos or tracing streets or deriving urban areas from analysis of satellite photos, and posting his experiments with them as he goes. I’m zazzed (thanks AG) to...

Projects using Cabspotting

| 08.11.10

Did you know that the Cabspotting project we designed with Scott Snibbe for the Exploratorium, is still going strong, providing a live view into the minute-by-minute realtime positions and status of the Yellow Cab taxi service in San Francisco? And that the project has an API that you can use to access this data in...

Quova: Trying something new

| 08.10.10

I’m excited to announce the start of a new kind of project for Stamen, working with the geolocation experts at Quova to explore the opportunities for visualization of their truly ginormous dataset — geographic information on all of the IP addresses on the internet. What’s new here, for us, is that we’ve agreed to publicly blog about...

The maps just keep on comin pt 2.

| 08.10.10

One of these days I’ll get around to updating the maps section of our site, ’cause things’ve changed since theCalifornia Stimulus Map (although I still think the Robert Louis Stevenson quote is pretty good, it’s basically 1/2 of our whole business plan). In the meantime I wanted to share a few things that Mike Bostock,...