Cheerio Maps is a view of housing data from http://www.ziprealty.com/ that we (and when I say we, I mean Aaron) visualized in early 2010. The maps look at how the sizes, prices and ages of houses vary across the San Francisco Bay Area, and uses circles of different sizes to denote greater and lesser…

I’m excited to announce the start of a new kind of project for Stamen, working with the geolocation experts at Quova to explore the opportunities for visualization of their truly ginormous dataset — geographic information on all of the IP addresses on the internet.

It’s time to start talking in public about the major revision to Bing Maps that Stamen designed for Microsoft.

It’s not every day you get asked to re-imagine the state of online mapping for a company that has the resources to actually take a…

View Project

Close readers of Aaron’s blog and flickr stream know that he’s been thinking for some time about making maps out of things that people do, whether it’s geotagging photos or tracing streets or deriving urban areas from analysis of satellite photos, and posting his experiments with them as…

Today we’re announcing the public beta of Dotspotting, a project designed to help people work with geographic data in ways that are intelligible, straightforward and useful in the real world. You can sign up for an account or just take a peek around at…

I posted some early examples last week, and SimpleGeo announced this morning the result of our collaboration with them over the past few months: Polymaps.org.

We’ve been working with Stamen to provide visual analysis of the huge datasets that we’re working with, and…

We’ve — finally! — collaborated with the fabulous Jen Bekman’s 20x200 on a print edition of a Stamen project, Prettymaps. 20x200 makes it possible for people to buy art at whatever level they’re comfortable, from $20 to $200, and the project has put art into the hands of…

Since Mike launched Walking Papers I’ve been fascinated with the aesthetic quality of the scans that people have been uploading. Last weekend, when he and Aaron were down at Camp Roberts working on the project, I asked him to make a change to the way that scans are displayed so…