Mapping the Intersection Between Social Media and Open Spaces in California

| 04.30.14

What happens when you map the social media footprint of the great outdoors? Last month, Stamen launched parks.stamen.com, a project we created in partnership with the Electric Roadrunner Lab, with the goal of revealing the diversity of social media activity that happens inside parks and other open spaces in California. If you haven’t already looked...

OpenStreetMap Spring Editathon

| 04.29.14

Last Saturday Stamen hosted the Bay Area edition of the OpenStreetMap Spring Editathon, one of 10 locations across the country. We had nearly 40 people show up over the course of the day, all of them eager to help contribute to the development of OpenStreetMap, “the Wikipedia of Maps”. At Stamen we use OpenStreetMap data...

Stamen DODOcases go international: introducing Paris, London and Tokyo

| 04.28.14

There’s something really lovely about carrying a new, sleek piece of technology in something that looks and feels like a book, and was made using old-school bookbinding methods. This old-meets-new quality of DODOcase is exactly why we at Stamen love them and are delighted to partner with them again! Just last year, Stamen’s maps appeared...

Stamen Speaking at State of the Map US

| 04.09.14

We’re delighted to be participating again in the American flagship OpenStreetMap conference, State of the Map US, as both sponsors and speakers. Here’s the lineup for Saturday: 9:45 AM: Building Businesses Using OpenStreetMap by Eric Rodenbeck 4:30 PM: Teaching Mapping to Geographers by Stephanie May (Urban Mapping) & Alan McConchie And for Sunday: 11:30 AM:...