blog/Process

Visualizing global satellite coverage with Planet

| 10.19.16

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...

Using open data to learn about land use in Los Angeles

| 09.16.16

by Eric Rodenbeck and Alan McConchie An industrial stretch in the City of Industry OpenStreetMap’s Los Angeles County building import is well under way, having imported over 1.5 million buildings so far, and with another 1.5 million to go! We were proud to help get the project off the ground, and it’s now taken on...

Tracking and mapping Planet’s Satellite Coverage with interactive maps

| 08.31.16

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 and is making towards its mission...

Merging Offline Edits with the POSM Replay Tool

| 08.22.16

Replaying offline changes and merging with OSM Introducing Portable OpenStreetMap outlined the components and basic workflow that POSM incorporates to facilitate the Missing Maps workflow in uncertain environments. This post will cover the philosophical and technical underpinnings of the POSM Replay Tool that allow it to participate as a contributing actor within the OSM ecosystem....

Embracing the Abstract in Visualized Data

| 07.27.16

Or Tangifying the Intangible Just over a year ago I showed up to my first day as a designer at Stamen Design and was asked to distill 30 years of scientific knowledge about human emotion into an interactive visualization that would be presented to the Dalai Lama in a few months time. And then things...

The Shapes of Emotions

| 07.27.16

One of the core visualizations in the Atlas of Emotions shows the range of states of each of the 5 emotions (anger, fear, disgust, sadness, and enjoyment). For example, annoyance, argumentativeness, and fury are all states of anger. But, the states vary quite a bit in terms of their intensity: annoyance is relatively mild, fury...

Finding Calm in the Atlas of Emotions

| 07.27.16

Our clients demonstrating the state of Enjoyment known as rejoicing As Nicolette Hayes described in Embracing the Abstract in Data Viz, the Atlas of Emotions required us to think and act creatively to visually describe human emotions. Zan narrated the path to our depiction of emotional states in The Shapes of Emotions, and that leads...

Introducing Portable OpenStreetMap

| 07.22.16

For the past several months we’ve been working with SpatialDev and the American Red Cross on a project we’ve been calling Portable OpenStreetMap (POSM). The initial goal was to integrate Field Papers and OpenMapKit to support the workflow used by Missing Maps efforts around the world, which aim to help some of the world’s most...

Say hello to global Stamen terrain maps

| 07.12.16

I think I’m goin’ to Katmandu,That’s really really where I’m going to Hello, Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Columbia & French Guiana! | Left: 2016 | Right 2014 As of today we are live! with a new and improved global version of our terrain map, first launched with the support of the Knight News Challenge,...

Tracking birds of prey from Mexico to Alaska and back

| 07.06.16

Osprey migration paths in North America It’s an exciting time to be interested in birds! Parrots are giving testimony in murder trials. Night parrots, thought to be extinct for 100 years, are being captured and tagged. Thousands of glowing pigeons carrying LEDs are flying through the air in giant collaborative night-time flocking art projects. And...