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We welcomed our friend Santiago Ortiz to San Francisco with a happy hour at Stamen HQ last Friday, and this is what happened. If you like what you see, we want YOU to join the dataviz community! One way to get started is with our geospatial data visualization classes, starting this Sunday. I can’t promise...

Server-Free Web Map Tile Generation Some various map tiles of the MPG Ranch area, in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. Recently at Stamen and thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, we’ve been experimenting with a new way of generating raster map tiles using AWS Lambda with open source GIS software....

Visualizing global satellite coverage with Planet Earlier this year Robbie Schingler, co-founder of Planet, asked Stamen to design and build a presentation that showed: Which spots on the globe Planet has daily or near-daily coverage of How this daily coverage changes during the year, due to weather and satellite deployment What progress Planet has made...

Late this summer, 10 people gathered at Stamen Design’s studios to learn how to design and work with geospatial data on the web. What we set out to do We all set aside 4 hours of a Sunday afternoon to get a hands-on introduction to the leading tools for web based mapping visualization. With a repo full...