Map2Image: better, faster, stronger
The Map to Image bit of maps.stamen.com has seen steady use since we http://content.stamen.com/map2image_is_live">launched it in September: close to six thousand images made, about half of those...
View ArticleNew Designs for Yandex Maps
A lot of what we do at Stamen is inventing things that haven’t been done before; pushing the technical envelope on something like scary cartography, or inventing new techniques to animate the effects...
View ArticleFacebook: mapping how viral photos spread
Following up on last month’s map of the world’s friendships on Facebook, we’ve released another visualization of relationships across social networks today. Called “Photo-sharing Explosions,” these...
View ArticleStamen at State of the Map US and NACIS
I went to my first Open Street Map conference recently—State of the Map US, in Portland. Stamen was one of the conference sponsors, along with MapBox, and ESRI and TeleNav, among others, and it’s great...
View ArticleGoogle: #freeandopen
Friends of the internet! In a few days the International Telecommunication Union, a UN body made up of governments around the world, will be meeting in Qatar to re-negotiate International...
View ArticleHi 2013
All right! It’s 2013 & I have all kinds of new business to report. Back in 2002, when I was first getting serious about Stamen, I got my first real gig: my friend Dane Howard (formerly of Quokka...
View ArticleQuestions from Webstock
As I’ve done before once or twice, I got excited enough talking about the projects we’ve been working on that I ran a bit over during my talk today and didn’t get to the questions I wanted to ask the...
View ArticleAnnouncing here.stamen.com
Stamen has been working with 3d data from HERE for a few months now, and it’s time to start being public about that. You can skip to the good stuff by heading over to http://here.stamen.com/ and...
View ArticlePow! Thwok! Happy Monday.
Lock Batman, Hulk, Iron Man, Catwoman, a mercenary Snow White and antihero Bilbo Baggins in a room. Make ‘em fight. Who wins? Our latest social vote project for MTV’s 2013 Movie Awards gives a realtime...
View ArticleParklets, private bus networks and open source have more in common than you...
Later today, I’ll be joining a panel discussion at SPUR talking about how urban agents are changing our cities, with local design and infrastructure smarties like Raphael Garcia from the San Francisco...
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