Maps! If they didn’t exist, someone would need to invent them. There’s something inherently beautiful about mapping. One great thing about it is that mapping touches almost every industry and subject matter we can think of, from conservation to art to history to emergency management, and much more. We don’t specialize in any one industry, but we do specialize in making beautiful modern maps for data-rich organizations.

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UCSF Health Atlas

A team from UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity, led by Dr. Debby Oh, hired us to build an online tool to help researchers explore how our environment influences our health at a local ...

High-res aerial imagery for the Arizona Ecosystems Monitor

We first worked with the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University on the early stages of their platform to monitor stress levels for every tree in the state of Arizona using high-resolution aerial imagery....

Redesigning the Distressed Communities Index

Economic Innovation Group (EIG) approached Stamen with the goal to redesign their renowned Distressed Communities Index (DCI). The index categorizes zip codes, counties, cities, districts, and st...

Transportation data portal design for Cambridge Systematics

Cambridge Systematics came to Stamen to help them redesign their data portal and dashboards for analyzing movement patterns. They wanted help streamlining their workflow creating dashboards of transportation data fo...

Tracking viruses with WastewaterSCAN

What if you could check pathogen levels like you do the weather? We collaborated with WastewaterSCAN to develop a comprehensive platform for visualizing virus data collected from wastewater treatment plants across the United States. ...

Optimizing disaster response CrisisReady

CrisisReady, a research collaboration between the Harvard Data Science Initiative and Direct Relief, aims to advance data-driven decision making in emergency scenarios. They reached out to Stamen...

Mapping Japanese American internment with Densho

In 2021, Stamen began working with Densho, a nonprofit committed to documenting the oral histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on American soil during WWII. ...

Custom Cartography with Spherical

What We Made Stamen collaborated with Spherical Studio to help redesign their custom branded base map and provide design and data expertise for their Living Infrastructure Field Kit. Spheri...

Lyft Maps

Lyft partnered with Stamen to design and implement their first custom maps for their riders and driver. Stamen worked with Lyft’s product designers and researchers to understand the unique needs of their users while developing a cartographic...

Expanding Basemap Offerings for a Global Audience with AWS

What we made Amazon Web Services brought on Stamen as a partner to develop four new map styles as part of the Amazon Location Service Open Data Maps collection. These map are designed for AWS customers who ...