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Exploring the impact of global warming on North American birds with Audubon

| 12.27.19

An article by Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic about this project is available here. North American birds are in trouble. This was the stark message embedded in the National Audubon Society’s climate report, Survival by Degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink, which reveals that nearly two-thirds of bird species are imperiled by current climate...

Getting Native Reservations on OpenStreetMap: Transcript

| 12.18.19

Today (January 22nd) is Treaty Day in the region where I live (the northwest part of Washington State). It marks the day in 1855 when the Point Elliott Treaty was signed between the United States government and the native nations living around the north part of Puget Sound (the central Salish Sea). I talked a...

Video: Getting Native Reservations on OpenStreetMap

| 11.01.19

[crossposted from mappingmashups.net] Last month I gave a presentation at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference. NACIS is always one of my favorite conference, and you can now watch videos of most of the presentations on YouTube here. My talk was about getting Native Reservations to show up on OpenStreetMap. I blogged about...

Telling the Dropbox story of “How work became a mess

| 10.01.19

View the project live at https://stateofwork.dropbox.com/ Dropbox came to Stamen with an idea: that work has become too complicated. Much of the new technology that is supposed to make work more efficient has actually made us less productive. Dropbox wanted to explore this idea — using publicly available data and an editorialized approach — to answer a key question...

Visualizing Global Immunization Rates with The World Health Org, 2019

| 08.19.19

We at Stamen have had the pleasure of working with the World Health Organization’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals going back to 2015. Annually we have helped them to develop their report of global vaccination rates (you can see previous work here: 2016, 2017). The following post highlights some of the key findings from...

Mapping the arts landscape with Culture Compass

| 02.07.19

In recent years, San Francisco has become one of the most expensive cities in the world, putting extreme pressure on the arts and culture community that has been an essential part of SF’s unique character. Arts organizations have found it increasingly difficult to find affordable long-term spaces. Thankfully, SF is also home to the Community...

What’s In Your Wallet: Cryptocurrency Coin Correlations

| 10.30.18

This post originally appeared on Cointracker’s blog and was written by Chandan Lodha. At CoinTracker, we are building a portfolio & tax manager for cryptocurrency. CoinTracker syncs crypto transactions and balances from the top exchanges & wallets to deliver a unified dashboard of your cryptocurrency portfolio performance. CoinTracker also helps users calculate their cryptocurrency taxes...

Visualizing Patterns in Google’s Cloud

| 10.08.18

What makes one place feel different from another? The language, the food, the landscape, but also a hundred subtler things: the colors that houses are painted, the speed people walk, the siren sounds and… the way that data flows to cloud servers? When Google approached Stamen to develop an engaging visualization of Cloud Storage traffic,...

New maps in the cloud with HERE XYZ!

| 09.20.18

For the last couple of months, Stamen Design has been lucky to have access to an internal beta of HERE XYZ, the powerful new mapping solution from HERE Technologies. XYZ is now available for public beta, so you can try it too! As you explore XYZ, we believe our experiences can serve as a guide...

Introducing the Ground Control Point interface

| 06.28.18

Sure, your drone can take videos and photos from above, but while you’re taking those photos why not turn them into something mappy? OpenDroneMap is an open source toolkit that can help you do that. It takes aerial imagery such as that created with your drone and turns it into several other types of data,...