work/Maps

We designed a new map for Pinterest’s Place Pins that lets you map the things you love, near and far, making the pins more actionable and bringing out the explorer in all of us. Making a map style for t...

Stamen was invited to speak at the Jet Propulsion Lab for Data Visualization from Design to Discovery. We were thrilled to be onstage alongside ...

Good-looking maps used to be the domain of experts. That’s been changing quite a bit in the last few years, and it’s easier than ever now for developers to access mapping data. Never content to leave well enough alone, we thought we’d...

The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) is a partnership of federal, state, non-profit organizations and academic institutions dedicated to the protection and restoration of Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States. Ch...

In 2012, the International Telecommunication Union, a UN body made up of governments around the world, met in Qatar to re-negotiate International Telecommunications Regulations. These meetings were held in private and behind closed doors, which ma...

We developed Field Papers to help people create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world. Once you print it, you can take it outside, into the field, to record notes and observations about the area you’re looking at, o...

For almost two decades, Stamen has been exploring cartography with our clients and in research. These maps are presented here for your enjoyment and use wherever you display OpenStreetMap data. What we made Ther...

In mid-2011, Esquire magazine challenged five designers, architects, and artists to recreate the map of America to reflect the state of the union in 2012. Stamen was one of them, and Esquire’s instructions to us ...

Broadbandmap.gov collected internet connection data across the US. Funded by the FCC, the project let viewers compare connection type, actual speeds versus those advertised, availability compared to demographics, and other aspects of their broadba...

In late September of 2011 we published some work with the California Health Care Foundation, mapping variations in Elective Procedure Rates across the state. In English, this means we looked at how likely people are to do things like have t...