A big congrats to our own Kelsey Taylor, just elected to the Board of Directors of the North American Cartographic Information Society! For the next 2 years, Kelsey will help guide the direction of one of the most important & beloved organizations in the mapping community. nacis.org/our-society/...

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 stamen.com/stamens-dark...

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: stamen.com/what-we-map-.... Both styles are available from our friends at @[email protected] here: stadiamaps.com/explore-the-....

How is a brain like a mountain? Read "Brain Cartography: Mapping a place that everyone knows, but (almost) no one has ever been" here: stamen.com/brain-cartog...

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 stamen.com/data-visuali... #dataviz #design #maps #science #climate

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. stamen.com/navigate-you... #maps #transit #WashingtonDC

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: stamen.com/part-3-our-b...

Direct link to the "basemap tesseract" Galaxy Brain meme subdued.social/@alan/111818...

Read our recap of presentations, inspiration, and upcoming projects from the 2025 @stateofthemapus.bsky.social conference last month in Boston on the blog: stamen.com/stamen-at-st....

The Getty Institute just launched an 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: www.getty.edu/publications/ruscha/

New on the blog: we say goodbye to one of our oldest mapping tools... by creating a new map to visualize an archive of a half million user generated images! Read "Farewell, Map Stack" here: stamen.com/farewell-map... Join us at the @stateofthemapus.bsky.social conference this Friday to hear more.

Today and tomorrow, Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck will be speaking at the Data Art Symposium at Harvard University! Check out the livestream here: data-art.info/livestream And the schedule of events here: data-art.info/schedule

Stamen has designed a lot of maps across the carto industry over the years. Read about how Stamen uses tooling to debug maps, as we explore how data, tiles, and stylesheets work together to make beautiful maps. Read now at stamen.com/debugging-10...

We worked with the Science Museum to develop an interactive exhibit about The Congruence Engine, a 3-year research effort to digitally connect industrial heritage collections across the UK. Read more about our collaboration, focused on the industrial city of Bradford: stamen.com/navigating-p...

Learn more about the data analysis and visualization tool we helped build for Stanford University's Natural Capital Project: naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu/news/natural...

It’s that time of year! Love it or hate it, #DaylightSavingTime is upon us, and we are listening to our podcast episode from a few years ago with cartographer @awoodruff.bsky.social about his Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool. Give it a listen here: stamen.com/andy-woodruf...

Now on the blog: how we expanded UCSF’s Health Atlas from California (which we first collaborated on in 2019) to the entire US in 2024, including data and design updates across the entire tool. Read now at stamen.com/taking-ucsfs... #maps #basemaps #design #cartography #ucsf #health #choropleth

Today at Harvard, our own Eric Rodenbeck joins a conversation with Harvard University Graduate School of Design on "Engaging Spaces: Exploring Digital + Analog Responsive Environments"

On the blog: behind the scenes details on how we’ve migrated Columbia University’s Mapping Historical New York from raster to vector rendering. Read it now on the blog at stamen.com/vector-beesw.... #maps #basemaps #design #cartography #columbia #historicalmaps #newyork

Now on the blog: a recap of our presentations at the recent North American Cartographic Information Society #NACIS conference (including videos of each talk)! #NACIS2024 stamen.com/stamen-at-na...

Today we published the first of a three-part series: "Maps and visualizations we're keeping an eye on for Election Day". Part 1 is all about visualizing political polling! Read it now on our blog at stamen.com/maps-and-vis...

New on our blog: "Telling the Story of Changing Populations With Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas" stamen.com/telling-the-...

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-brillian... Stay tuned for part 3 of the series dropping next week!

New on the blog, a deep dive into using OpenStreetMap data to render highway shields on maps: "Highway Shields On the Open(StreetMap) Road" stamen.com/highway-shie...

Sad news. It has come to our attention that the NOAA weather station moored at 0º, 0º (nicknamed "Null Island Buoy") no longer exists! Check out the update at the end of @mappingmashups.bsky.social's Null Island blog post for more details of the buoy's untimely demise. stamen.com/the-many-liv...

Now on the blog: "The Many Lives of Null Island", by Stamen Lead Cartographer @mappingmashups.bsky.social stamen.com/the-many-liv...

Last month I gave a talk at the State of the Map US conference about our work migrating our famous @stamen.bsky.social OpenStreetMap-based map styles to a modern platform in partnership with Stadia Maps. Now you can watch the recorded video of the talk on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qewW...

In our latest blog post, Stamen cartographers Kelsey Taylor & Alan McConchie (@mappingmashups.bsky.social) dig into "The World of Ice and Fire in Maps". Get your fix of nerdy Game of Thrones cartography analysis before you watch season 2 of House of the Dragon on Sunday! stamen.com/the-world-of...

Last week @mappingmashups.bsky.social gave a talk about how we recently modernized our basemaps, except for one. Updating Watercolor to a new pipeline would be challenging... but Steve Gifford from Wet Dog Weather wrote some thoughts about how it might be done: www.wetdogweather.com/2024/06/12/h...

This Saturday we'll be at the State of the Map US conference in Salt Lake City! stateofthemap.us Ross Thorn will be talking about mapping highway shields using OpenStreetMap data, and Alan McConchie (@mappingmashups.bsky.social) will give an overview of our recent revamp of our basemap styles.

New post: "Designing the Avocado of Uncertainty" stamen.com/designing-th...

It's been a year since we first booted up Zelda Tears of the Kingdom! What do professional cartographers think of this map of Hyrule? How does it stack up against the perfect 10 out of 10 map in Breath of the Wild? Check out our review of the map: stamen.com/cartographer...

Last Friday we hosted a curator-led tour of Cooper Hewitt’s new show "Acquired!", featuring an interactive installation of Stamen’s watercolor maps. You can visit the show in person through September 2, 2024, and read more on our blog:

"What if you could track public health like the weather?" In our latest blog post, Stamen designer Caroline Carter talks about our work with WastewaterSCAN to make epidemiological charts more usable in our day-to-day lives, like checking a weather report.

New post: our Lead Cartographer Alan McConchie (@mappingmashups.bsky.social) looks back on 10 years working at Stamen: stamen.com/year-ten-at-...

Our watercolor map style will be on display at the Cooper Hewitt (the Smithsonian National Design Museum) starting on March 16. The exhibition, called “Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection,” highlights more than 150 new works added to the collection since 2017. www.si.edu/newsdesk/rel...

New post: "Designing for all audiences: Mapping the future of food". Stamen designer Caroline Carter shares how we worked with The Plotline from Earth Genome to visualize which food crops are best-suited to the changing climate in Africa. Read more on our blog stamen.com/designing-fo...

We just launched a new map with the Economic Innovation Group, showcasing their latest Distressed Communities Index. Explore interactive maps and dataviz, and read stories that illuminate how local economic conditions correlate with life expectancy, social connections, and more. eig.org/dci

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

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 in California where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII. Read more on our blog: stamen.com/manzanar-upc...

We're excited to join the list of Global Top 100 Geospatial Companies chosen by GeoAwesome! See the whole list at: geoawesomeness.com/global-top-1... #GlobalTop100Geo #GeoAwesomeness

"Helvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind". In our latest blog post, Stamen cartographer @mappingmashups.bsky.social takes us on a typographic tour through the font selection in our signature "Toner" map style. stamen.com/helvetica-is...

We just launched a new site "Manzanar CloseUp", an in-depth view of daily life at the Manzanar Concentration Camp in California during WWII, in collaboration with Densho. Read more on our blog, and check out the recorded webinar here: stamen.com/visualizing-...

New on our blog: a review of our favorite maps from the #30DayMapChallenge! stamen.com/another-30da...

To see what we've been up to lately, check out our blog stamen.com/blog/, and we also have a podcast (currently on hiatus) called Pollinate and you can listen to the archive of episodes here: anchor.fm/pln8

Hello world! We're a data visualization and cartography studio based in San Francisco. Our main social media home is on Mastodon these days, but we're going to give Bluesky a try too. Got any good mapping, design, or dataviz accounts we should follow? Let us know!