Top Stories published by Hi.Stamen in August of 2010

Quova: Trying something new

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.


Announcing Prettymaps

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…


Announcing Polymaps

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…

Knight News Challenge update

This is my first post on our new Citytracking project, which is being supported by a grant from the Knight News Challenge. We’ve been working on it for a good part of August.Thus far it’s been primarily talk and thinking and writing, working on the overall structure of the…


Projects using Cabspotting

Did you know that the Cabspotting project we designed with Scott Snibbe for the Exploratorium, is still going strong, providing a live view into the minute-by-minute realtime positions and status of the Yellow Cab taxi service in San Francisco? And that the project has an API that…


The maps just keep on comin pt 2.

One of these days I’ll get around to updating the maps section of our site, ’cause things’ve changed since theCalifornia Stimulus Map (although I still think the Robert Louis Stevenson quote is pretty good, it’s basically 1/2 of our whole business plan). In the meantime…