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Stamen Design (@stamen@vis.social) @stamen

San Francisco product development and visual communications studio. Products, tools, stories, maps, and curiosities—made from data. vis.social/@stamen

Joined March 2007
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New on our blog: "Telling the Story of Changing Populations With Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas" stamen.com/telling-the-story… #NewYork #NYC #NewYorkCity #cartography #mapping #dataviz #history #demographics #NACIS2024
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Happy b-day to #OpenStreetMap, the free, volunteer-created map of the world! We've worked w/ #OSM data since the very beginning, and a few years ago we wrote a 2-part history of Stamen's long relationship with OSM: stamen.com/our-brilliant-fri… Stay tuned for pt. 3 dropping next week!
A montage of nine colorful maps arrayed in a 3 by 3 grid. Each map is a Stamen project using OpenStreetMap data, styled in a different way. A banner of text on top of the montage reads "Happy 20th birthday OpenStreetMap!" in black Helvetica text on top of a bright yellow banner.

ALT A montage of nine colorful maps arrayed in a 3 by 3 grid. Each map is a Stamen project using OpenStreetMap data, styled in a different way. A banner of text on top of the montage reads "Happy 20th birthday OpenStreetMap!" in black Helvetica text on top of a bright yellow banner.
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Sad news. It has come to our attention that the @NOAA weather station moored at 0º, 0º (nicknamed @NullIslandBuoy) no longer exists! Check out the update at the end of @mapppingmashups's @nullisland blog post for more details of the buoy's untimely demise. stamen.com/the-many-lives-of…
A drawing of the "Null Island Buoy" on a tombstone floating in the ocean. The text on the tombstone says "R. I. P. Null Island Buoy 1998-2021"

ALT A drawing of the "Null Island Buoy" on a tombstone floating in the ocean. The text on the tombstone says "R. I. P. Null Island Buoy 1998-2021"

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Now on the blog: "The Many Lives of Null Island", by Stamen Lead Cartographer @mappingmashups: stamen.com/the-many-lives-of… #NullIsland #cartography #maps #design
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Thanks to the many supporters of @NullIsland over the years, including @ajturner @michalmigurski @thisisaaronland @kelsosCorner @geeknixta @NullIslandBuoy @nullislandgang @mapzen @ektadary and many others
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We've been enjoying the #ShadowoftheErdtree DLC for #EldenRing! With new noteworthy map features (and some that we missed the first time around), check out the update to our review of the map! stamen.com/cartographers-pla…

Cartographers Play Video Games - A Review of the Map in Elden Ring | Stamen

Elden Ring is the first of the Souls games to have a map! Here's what professional cartographers have to say about it...

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An ecosystem is a complex web of relationships between flora and fauna 🐟🦆🌱🦌 We worked with MPG Ranch to create a tool that models how a change in one species will affect everything else! Read more on our blog: stamen.com/visualizing-ecosy…
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Interactivity allows users to engage with data in more impactful and enjoyable ways! Read our latest blog post to learn from Stamen designer Caroline Carter about how we employ interactivity in our work: stamen.com/why-use-interacti…
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In our latest blog post, Stamen cartographers Kelsey Taylor & @mappingmashups dig into "The World of Ice and Fire in Maps". Get your fix of nerdy #GameofThrones #cartography analysis before you watch season 2 of #HouseoftheDragon on Sunday! stamen.com/the-world-of-ice-… #GoT #HotD
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Last week @mappingmashups gave a talk about how we recently modernized all of our basemaps... except for one. Updating Watercolor to a new pipeline would be challenging, but Steve Gifford from @WetDogWeather wrote some thoughts about how it might be done: wetdogweather.com/2024/06/12…

How to Make Stamen Watercolor in MapLibre - Wet Dog Weather

With a few adjustments, we can easily replicate the Stamen Watercolor style in MapLibre. This post provides a detailed guide on how to do this.

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This Saturday we'll be at the @OpenStreetMapUS conference in SLC: stateofthemap.us @RealRossThorn will talk about mapping highway shields using #OpenStreetMap data, & @mappingmashups will give an overview of our revamped basemaps w/ @StadiaMaps. #sotmus #sotmus2024
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New post: "Designing the Avocado of Uncertainty" stamen.com/designing-the-avo… #dataviz #design #avocado #weather #hurricane #hurricanes
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It's been a year since we first booted up #Zelda #TearsOfTheKingdom! ⚔️🛡️ What do professional cartographers think of this #map of Hyrule? How does it stack up against the perfect 10 out of 10 map in #BreathoftheWild? Check out our review of the map: stamen.com/cartographers-pla…

Cartographers Play Video Games – A Review of the Map in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom |...

It’s been a year of ups and downs—quite literally if you’ve been playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK) like we have. The long-awaited sequel to Breath of the Wild (BotW) was one of...

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Read about our work with @InnovateEconomy where we created a dashboard that uses the Distressed Communities Index (DCI) to highlight how socioeconomic factors impact communities across the United States: stamen.com/pulling-back-the-…

Pulling back the curtain on economic disparity with the Distressed Communities Index | Stamen

In August 2023, Stamen started working with the Economic Innovation Group (EIG), a bipartisan public policy organization dedicated to forging a more dynamic and inclusive American economy. The focus...

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New post: our Lead Cartographer Alan McConchie (@mappingmashups) looks back on 10 years working at Stamen: stamen.com/year-ten-at-stame…
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New post: "Designing for all audiences: Mapping the future of food". Stamen designer Caroline Carter shares how we worked with @the_plotline from @EarthGenome to visualize which food crops are best-suited to the changing climate in Africa. Read more: stamen.com/designing-for-all…

Designing for all audiences: Mapping the future of food | Stamen

Dealing with the occasional 100-year storm or drought are problems farmers have had to deal with for centuries, but what happens when those weather events become the norm? Climate change will test...

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We just launched a new map w/ the Economic Innovation Group (@InnovateEconomy), showcasing their Distressed Communities Index. Explore maps & dataviz that illuminate how local economic conditions correlate with life expectancy, social connections, & more. eig.org/dci

2025 Distressed Communities Index

The Distressed Communities Index (DCI) is a leading resource for understanding the geography of economic distress and opportunity in the United States. First launched by the Economic Innovation Group...

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A few years ago we created a website for the #MaxPlanckInstitute to visualize complex urban transformations due to immigration for a project called "Superdiversity". Recently we updated it to make it easier to add new cities & updated datasets. Here's how: stamen.com/refactoring-a-dat…

Refactoring a dataviz website to create an extensible application | Stamen

The Max Planck Institute hired Stamen a few years back to create a website to visualize increasingly complex urban transformations due to immigration for a project called Superdiversity. The site we...

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New post: we go behind the scenes of our recently-launched project "Manzanar CloseUp" with Densho.org. Explore the human stories of the Manzanar concentration camp where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII. Read more on our blog: stamen.com/manzanar-upclose-…
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Stamen Design (@stamen@vis.social) retweeted
Stadia Maps@StadiaMaps
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🌍 Elevate Your Maps w/ Stadia Maps & @qgis! 🚀 Dive into our tutorial to seamlessly blend @stamen styles into your projects. Perfect for GIS pros, researchers, & hobbyists. Unlock cartographic storytelling today! Tutorial: docs.stadiamaps.com/tutorial… #GIS #Mapping #QGIS #DataViz
Stadia Maps serving the Stamen styles (Watercolor, Toner, Toner Lite, and Terrain) in QGIS.

ALT Stadia Maps serving the Stamen styles (Watercolor, Toner, Toner Lite, and Terrain) in QGIS.
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