This is a follow-up post about the piece we launched last week on Facebook Stories called “Data Visualization: Photo-Sharing Explosions.” The project took us a little over 2 weeks from start to finish, and we wanted to show you a bit about how we got to the final…

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 visualizations look at the different ways that photos…

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 of climate change due to global warming. It’s fun, and it’s definitely a big…

We’ve launched a new project for PMC, a consulting firm that advises municipalities on things like transit policy and energy use. Energy Efficiency in San Gabriel Valley looks at a variety of cities in southern California and reports how…

The Map to Image bit of maps.stamen.com has seen steady use since we launched it in September: close to six thousand images made, about half of those watercolor, a third toner, about one every ten minutes. We’ve made some adjustments and improvements to it that…

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 to see and be part of the different industries come…