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Nathaniel showcased nearly two years of City Tracking in Boston last Monday at the MIT/Knight Story and the Algorithm conference. You can read about this years’ winners here, as well about the changing nature of the grant: shorter cycles, more opportunities to apply, that kind of thing. It’s worth a look. The City Tracking project...

Earlier this year we worked with Warner Bros. to create an interactive map called Quarantine Your City on which fans of the latest Oren Peli thriller, Chernobyl Diaries, could vote to see a special screening in their city. The plot follows a group of modern-day American tourists on an “adventure tour” of Pripyat, the site...

A couple of weeks ago, the video Clouds premiered at the Wired Frames exhibit at Eyebeam in NYC. I had the good fortune of being involved in this project, which was led by documentary filmmaker Jonathan Minard and creative coder James George. The three of us met at the Art&&Code conference in Pittsburgh, in October...

We’ve been working on a travel planner for the Weather Channel that tells you a bit more than just how long it’ll take to get from point A to point B. This one predicts what the weather’s going to be like along your drive,when you get there. So let’s say you’re driving from New York...

I still remember those long lost days when an “interactive website” meant a site that had a mouseover effect on the navigation bar. How far we’ve come. Working with the fantastic, bold branding, we created a Twitter Tracker for Logo TV’s 2012 NewNowNext Awards that aired on April 6. The animations on the site are...

There are cupcakes with Stamen maps on them. Each one has a single tile printed on it. Cups and Cakes Bakery baked and prepared them. They were made for the Where 2.0 conference, where Mike is talking about how Old Is The New New and I am talking about Drawing Outside the Lines, which taken...

Here’s the final entry of a week of posts about the maps.stamen.com launch. As the launch of our new maps neared, I created a tool for us to look at how people are using the maps. Pre-Launch To speed up the loading of the maps, we try to pre-cache the map imagery. One problem. The...

This post was originally published on stamen.com by Michal Migurski. This is a follow up post to yesterday’s post about watercolor textures, Tuesday’s about watercolor process, and Monday’s announcing the launch of maps.stamen.com. Terrain Layer has been on my mind since 2008 when I first started to experiment with digital elevation data, but it’s only...

This post was originally published on stamen.com by Geraldine Sarmiento. Following up on Zach’s post from yesterday and Eric’s post on Monday, here’s a peek into my process in creating watercolor textures for watercolor maps. Below is a breakdown of the steps, a mix of the hand and the computer in all: Painting Scanning Making...

This post was originally published on stamen.com by Zach Watson. Yesterday, we announced a trio of new maps on maps.stamen.com — we’ve had a lot of interest in how the watercolor map gets generated, so here’s the play-by-play. We’ll be using a section of London as an example: To begin with, we wanted to capture some of...