Just in time for Spring Break: A new version of CaliParks app puts 11,826 parks at your fingertips with crowd-sourced trails and millions of on-the-spot photos from Instagram Nature and technology might not seem like a good fit to some. But everyone needs to get outdoors more, especially kids. Now a new bilingual, mobile, web-based...
This week, Stamen is taking part in TAKE THIS HAMMER: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The show, curated by Christian Frock, will bring together works of designers, activists, and community organizations to highlight current themes of activism in a place with a long legacy of citizen...
Last week I gave a couple of presentations around the Bay Area about Stamen Design’s recent project American Panorama. https://twitter.com/jskdecker/status/702705476648067073?s=20 American Panorama is the result of more than a year of work with the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, and it’s extremely satisfying to finally get to share it with the world...
Charles Waldheim at Harvard’s Office for Urbanization was kind enough to invite me to give the closing remarks at a meeting yesterday of designers, architects, city planners and municipal leaders at Miami Beach on the topic of Miami Beach and sea level rise. It’s a great place to have this conversation, partly because the city...
Last week, we kicked off a project at Stamen that we are very excited about: Portable OpenStreetMap (POSM). We are working in collaboration with The American Red Cross and SpatialDev to make OpenStreetMap, OpenMapKit, and Field Papers, all network-centric mapping technologies, available for field deployments in extremely remote areas of the world to support the Missing Maps effort. POSM has the potential to be...
Well, it’s been a lovely 8 years, 10 months, and 3 days blogging at content.stamen.com, but as of today we’re switching over to publishing on Medium at hi.stamen.com. 3224 days is a long time and the web has (obviously) evolved tremendously since then, so we’re happy to dive head first, again! into a new way...
When we launched CaliParks.org in February 2015, we also created a custom basemap especially to emphasize parks rather than the city names and highways that dominate most basic online maps. We made sure to pull all the park boundaries and names from the California Protected Areas Database (calands.org). That’s the nation’s most complete set of...
In a previous post, I described how we’ve carried out a first foray into trail curation on OpenStreetMap to deal with unauthorized trails appearing on the map. Rather than deleting them, we’ve changed their tags so they’re easily filtered out of the map but still present, so later mappers understand why those paths visible in...
This summer, Stamen and The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts hosted six fellowship projects. This was the second year of the Creative Code fellowships, and the fellows came from all over the United States to work on data visualization projects about the Bay Area. They were put into crash courses in visualization and hardware...