work/Cartography

Columbia University’s Center for Spatial Research came to us with a large and unique dataset of historical census data for the areas that are now Manhattan and Brooklyn dating back to 1850. In addition to being ag...

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. ...

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...

The Exploratorium reached out to Stamen to help with an installation for their exhibit, ¡Plantásticas!, which provides a unique exploration of the plant world in California through diverse perspectives. We worked with their team to create an eng...

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...

It’s been our privilege to work on one of our largest and most ambitious undertakings ever: collaborating closely with a team of Facebook engineers, designers, and data experts to roll out a global, multi-scale base map for all of Facebook’s b...

21st Century Fox studios came to Stamen with the need for a better map experience for people finding their way around their properties. T...

SPUR is a Planning and Urban Research Association based out of San Francisco, with offices in Oakland and San Jose. They asked Stamen to create a satellite image of the Bay Area for the wall of their office to highlight the bre...

The San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA) began the Blue Greenway project back in June of 2004 with a simple goal in mind: to envision a 13-mile greenway/waterway network along San Francisco’s southeastern waterfront. The Blue Greenway will comple...

David Rumsey has collected thousands of atlases and hundreds of globes. Atlases for the blind. Gigantic collections of watercolor drawings of the Grand Canyon. Ten-foot-long painted maps of the seven principle rivers of Asia all flowing in to the ...