Since launching maps.stamen.com and making the maps available for purchase in select cities on 20×200we’ve been lucky enough to receive a steady trickle of interest from people who want to print the maps themselves. For those unlucky enough to have missed the watercolor letterpress map that went out withJason Kottke’s marvelous Quarterly.co subscription service, we’re...
In 2008 we designed a hurricane tracker for MSNBC, right as Irene was “bearing down on Louisiana like a shotgun full of wind and rain.” The project worked fine for several seasons of hurricanes and tropical storms, until Apple killed Flash in 2011 and the world of interactive mapping and data visualization turned its attention...
Every year around this time in San Francisco things start to feel a little rushed, and there’s anticipation in the air as a whole slice of society hauls itself out to the middle of the Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man festival. I’m not going myself this year, but my good friend Zach Coffin...
maps.stamen.com, the second installment of the City Tracking project funded by the Knight News Challenge, is live. These unique cartographic styles and tiles, based on data from Open Street Map, are available for the entire world, downloadable for use under a under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, and free. *takes deep breath* There are...
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...
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...
I’ve been feeling for some time now that the data visualization space is about to go completely bananas, where “bananas” means “taken for granted” in the sense that no major cultural event will feel complete without a corresponding live data visualization. The breadth and depth of the conversation happening on twitter around the Olympics is...
The Hope For Haiti telethon is winding down and by all accounts things the after party is going smoothly. The live map we designed & built for MTV is here, there’s some conversation going on about it here, and it looks something like this when it’s in full swing: It’s early Saturday morning in Munich,...
Well, seeing as we’ve got a President who’s asserting the necessity of science (and that it will no longer be subject to political ideology, hooray, what a rock we’ve been under for the past eight years, doesn’t the day feel brighter?).. …it feels like as good a day as any to announce Stamen’s new work...