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One of the great things about Eric Fischer’s map experiments on Flickr is that he actually takes the time to geolocate everything. So if he’s making, say, a map of where people tweet vs where they upload photos in Montreal, the photo will tell you that it was taken in Montreal. Or if it’s he’s...

We’re pleased to be featured in a second design exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Talk To Me, curated by Paola Antonelli and opening to the press tonight. Our team have two pieces in the exhibit: prettymaps, the open data yellow-and-green smorgasbord that we accounced last year, and Walking Papers,...

Most online maps are designed to help you get around in a car. This generally means displaying: roads, businesses, buildings, on-ramps, parks, oceans and traffic congestion. Nothing wrong with that! Designers get handed a tool kit that has as many tools as a good swiss army knife, and the maps reflect these tools. Millions of...

One of the central tenets of the Knight News Challenge grant for Citytracking was that the work would happen in public, and that we’d make the work public as we go. The project has been downloadable on GitHub for some time now, and will continue to be so, and we’re announcing today the availability of...

Dotspotting.org is officially live with some new features and swanky new cartography. Cross-posted on PBS Idea Lab The project has been in a partially-completed stage for a few months now, and I’ve blogged about the project before. We’ve got a few new things to announce: The url is now http://dotspotting.org; no more of this stamen...

The OneBayArea Travel Map that we worked on with the good people at MIG, Inc is live athttp://maps.onebayarea.org/, and shows you approximately how far you can get from any point in the Bay Area by car, public transit, bike, or on foot, at particular times of the day. You can filter your view by the...

We’ve just completed a mapping/data visualization project for One.org, the watchdog group that tracks the G8 and EU’s spending commitments to Africa. The site represents each member country as a flag-filled circle, sized according to the relative size of that country’s contribution. We track and display four variables for each country: percentage of total income,...

Sometimes I wish I could be as disciplined as my friends at Berg, who’ve been faithfully writing up weeknotes rain or shine for 308 weeks now. These days it’s a struggle to even participate in all the things that are going on around the studio, much less write about it. In my head sometimes we’re...

Stamen was featured in the New York Times business section yesterday. Like, the actual paper version of the paper, the one with the crossword puzzle (thanks John Poisson for the photo): Three things are insanely great about this: We’re there alongside industry smarties like Hans Rosling, Ben Shneiderman, and Jim Bartoo. This is good company....

Today’s the day to announce, along with Laughing Squid and CNET, the public beta of Mondo Window, which lets you see what you’re looking at out your airplane window. As far as we know, this is the first sitedesigned specifically for use with in-flight internet, but those bragging rights are less important than the fact...