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Nobody asked, but hey we just enabled HTTPS on Pretty Maps, an old project from 2010 by Stamen alum Aaron Straup Cope @thisisaaronland@orthis.social. Amazing that it still works!
Enjoy it here: https://prettymaps.stamen.com/
#ttmprettymaps #prettymaps #maps #cartography #design #flickr
Stamen is working on a research project about the existing map design & development tooling landscape in advance of a talk we’re planning for the State of the Map US conference. We’re interested in hearing from folks across the mapping community about what tools they use, where there are gaps, and how workflows could be improved in the future.
If you have 10 minutes, please consider filling out our census here: https://forms.gle/ZWt2m2Yq3o5CLJL4A
The survey is open until May 1! #cartography #maps #design
This month OpenStreetMap turns 21!
To mark the occasion, we dug into our archives to finish part 3 of Stamen's personal history of OSM, covering the years 2016 to the present. Check it out on our blog, including links to part 1 and 2 of the series:
https://stamen.com/part-3-our-brilliant-friend-stamen-and-openstreetmap-through-the-years/
Stamen recently collaborated with MetroMatch, a transit-first navigation tool focused on identifying destinations within walking distance of transit in U.S. cities. Read about how we redesigned their map for Washington, DC on the blog.
https://stamen.com/navigate-your-city-car-free-with-metromatch/
#maps #design #cartography #transit #metro #dcmetro #OpenStreetMap #WashingtonDC
In our latest blog post, we share our philosophy of dark mode basemaps. What are dark maps good for, and why might you need one? How do you design a dark mode map that is both beautiful and functional? All this and more, now on the blog at https://stamen.com/stamens-dark-map-materials/
What do we map in the shadows?
Our iconic Toner map style, now in dark mode! Read about how we developed "Toner Dark" and "Toner Blacklite" on the blog now: https://stamen.com/what-we-map-in-the-shadows.
Both styles are available from our friends at @stadiamaps@en.osm.town here: https://stadiamaps.com/explore-the-map.
#halloween #maps #DarkMode #toner #basemaps #design #cartography #OpenStreetMap
The Getty Institute just launched a new online publication “Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City", which includes several map visualizations we created to explore the vast digitized collection of Ruscha’s photographs of LA over the years.
The entire publication is online, including videos, visualizations, zoomable images, and more: https://www.getty.edu/publications/ruscha/
#LosAngeles #EdRuscha #art #cartography #maps #GettyMuseum #GettyInstitute #LA #OpenAccess
A big congrats to our own Kelsey Taylor, who was just elected to the Board of Directors of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)! For the next two years, Kelsey will help guide the direction of one of the most important and beloved organizations in the mapping community. Way to go Kelsey!
Stamen Lead Cartographer + Designer Kelsey Taylor ran a data viz and mapping workshop at the recent USGS Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Summer Symposium in Urbana, IL.
Read more about the workshop at https://stamen.com/data-visualization-and-mapping-for-a-scientific-audience-with-usgs-midwest-climate-adaptation-science-centers-summer-symposium/
How is a brain like a mountain? Read "Brain Cartography: Mapping a place that everyone knows, but (almost) no one has ever been" here: https://stamen.com/brain-cartography-mapping-a-place-that-everyone-knows-but-almost-no-one-has-ever-been/
#design #cartography #ScienceCommunication #UCSF #BrainScience #NeuroSci
Lately Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck has been teaching at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Here is the studio report from the workshop he taught last spring, covering the use of AI in design, the nature of archives, and a pedagogy of iteration vs perfection: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/publication/re-imagining-the-archive/
Stamen Lead Design Technologist Eric Brelsford presenting about Map Stack Stack at #SOTMUS today:
Feb 5 in New York City: Eric Rodenbeck will be giving a talk at Parsons School of Design at The New School, titled "There’s a Crack in Everything: Gaps, Seams, and the Work of Knowing"
Free registration here: https://event.newschool.edu/ericrodenbeck
#NewYorkCity #NYC #ParsonsSchoolOfDesign #TheNewSchool #dataviz #design
This Saturday we'll be at the State of the Map US conference in Salt Lake City!
Ross Thorn will be talking about mapping highway shields using OpenStreetMap data, and Alan McConchie (@alan@subdued.social) will give an overview of our recent revamp of our basemap styles with @stadiamaps@en.osm.town
https://whova.com/embedded/session/CqfAOxC7zkWeLe2tEeVMnN2ZUm54RQ8EokflASd5YOU%3D/3820092/
https://whova.com/embedded/session/CqfAOxC7zkWeLe2tEeVMnN2ZUm54RQ8EokflASd5YOU%3D/3820101/
We hope to see you there!
Read how we visualized the complex structure of the Catholic Church in the US for their first official interactive diocesan map, available now on the blog at https://stamen.com/exploring-the-ecclesiastical-map-of-the-catholic-church-in-the-us/
New blog post: we take a tour through all the fascinating ways our OpenStreetMap-based Stamen map tiles were used during last month's #30DayMapChallenge! https://stamen.com/30daymapchallenge-2022/ (including images from @neilc@mas.to @clairehalloran@mastodon.energy @cartocalypse@norden.social @geofritz@fosstodon.org and many more)
Read our recap of presentations, inspiration, and upcoming projects from the 2025 #StateOfTheMap US conference last month in Boston on the blog: https://stamen.com/stamen-at-state-of-the-map-us-2025/.
Happy new year! we just dropped a bonus episode of our #PLN8 #podcast where Catherine Madden and @infowetrust@vis.social talk about the key milestones in taking the Information Graphic Visionaries series from brainchild to binding! https://anchor.fm/pln8/episodes/BONUS--RJ-Andrews--The-Work-Behind-the-Books-e1sug7l
New #podcast episode is live! We talk with @infowetrust@vis.social about the book series “Information Graphic Visionaries” about the groundbreaking work of Florence Nightingale, Emma Willard, and Étienne-Jules Marey. Listen here or subscribe to #PLN8 wherever you get your podcasts: https://anchor.fm/pln8/episodes/13--RJ-Andrews--The-History-of-Information-Graphics-e1ru8p9
Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck has two upcoming workshops at the Harvard Graduate School of Design:
"Re-imagining the Archive" and "AI Design for Ocean Solutions".
Read more here: https://stamen.com/two-upcoming-workshops-at-harvard-gsd/
We want to hear about your map tools! Hey designers, developers, cartographers, or anyone who works with maps: we want to know what tools you use to wrangle geospatial data, design maps online, or to collaborate with people who do. We extended the deadline to May 15 for Stamen's Cartographic Tooling Survey, please take a few minutes to fill it out! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDZjRA0bIdnt8WY1GWTS8y2UEiOkLPcQLfMu2EWjxYbAgO5w/viewform
