work/Cartography

American Panorama for the University of Richmond

American Panorama brings a great work of US historical scholarship into the 21st century. The project looks at key events and timelines that have shaped American history and is a major piece of digital scholarship by the Digita...

Golden Gate Recreation Area Map

In 2013, the Parks Conservancy reached out to us to help with a new initiative: creating a beautiful map to help more locals (and tourists) get outside and into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the nation’s largest urban national park, ...

Open Terrain

We’ve been quietly working under a grant from the Knight Foundation to do something that no one seems to have done before: publicly compiling as many open-licensed, locally-created terrain data sets as possible to stitch together a global set....

3D Mars Map

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

Map Stack

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...

maps.stamen.com

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...

United States Broadband Maps for the FCC

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...

A mapping platform for the London 2012 Olympic Games

We designed a new look for the maps used by LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games). The project organized tens of thousands of geocoded articles and photos that the London 2012 team produc...

Pretty Maps

Prettymaps is an experimental, interactive map composed of multiple freely available, community-generated data sources: All the Flickr shapefiles rendered as a...

Cabspotting

Among the first uses of realtime data in a visualization of any kind on the web, Cabspotting was shown in the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008, wa...