Our co-authored article with longtime partners @ucsfhealth.bsky.social about the "UCSF Health Atlas" is available now in The Journal of Medical Internet Research! Read more at www.jmir.org/2026/1/e89065
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Today we're at the OpenStreetMapUS #StateOfTheMap2026 conference in #MadisonWI. We'll share some results from our Cartographic Design + Workflow Census. If you're around, say hi! #OpenStreetMap #OpenSource #Cartography
New work! "Mapping Boston’s Curbs: Designing a Public Interface for the City’s New Curb Lab" stamen.com/mapping-bost... #Boston #SmartCities #OpenSource #OpenData #Urbanism
Mapping Boston's Curbs: Designing a Public Interface for the City's New Curb Lab | Stamen
Recently, we worked with the City of Boston’s Office of Emerging Technology to design a prototype curb regulation map, making it easier for Boston residents and visitors to find parking and understand...
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We're excited to share that Stamen founder and CEO Eric Rodenbeck will be the keynote speaker at the #Outlier2026 #dataviz conference next month!
Data Visualization Society@datavizsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚀We're excited to announce Eric Rodenbeck as our keynote speaker for #Outlier2026! ✨ The conference is fully virtual this year. Don’t miss out—register today! → buff.ly/prLR72t
Just published: Eric Rodenbeck's essay "AI as a Design Medium" in the Harvard Design Magazine Read it here: stamen.com/ai-as-a-desi...
AI as a Design Medium | Stamen
This article first appeared in Harvard Design Magazine on May 4, 2026. While the first article in this series on artificial intelligence (AI) explored how designers may be uniquely positioned to confr...
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Stamen is working on a research project about the existing map design & development tooling landscape: what tools people use, where there are gaps, and how workflows could be improved in the future. If you have 10 minutes, please consider filling out our census here! forms.gle/ZWt2m2Yq3o5C...
Cartographic Design + Development Workflow Census
Stamen is working on a small research project about the existing map design and development tooling landscape in advance of a talk we’re planning for State of the Map US in Madison, WI. We're interest...
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Nobody asked, but hey we just enabled HTTPS on Pretty Maps, an old project from 2010 by Stamen alum Aaron Straup Cope (@thisisaaronland.bsky.social). Amazing that it still works! Enjoy it here: prettymaps.stamen.com #ttmprettymaps #prettymaps #maps #cartography #design #flickr
Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck was quoted in the @bostonglobe.com this week: "From college campuses to political campaigns, an anti-‘AI slop’ revolt has arrived" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/18/m...
From college campuses to political campaigns, an anti-‘AI slop’ revolt has arrived - The Boston Globe
Local backlash is growing to AI images that are appearing in places many feel they don't belong.
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Feb 5 in New York City: Eric Rodenbeck will be giving a talk at Parsons School of Design at @thenewschool.bsky.social, titled "There’s a Crack in Everything: Gaps, Seams, and the Work of Knowing" Free registration here: event.newschool.edu/ericrodenbeck
Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck has two upcoming workshops at the Harvard Graduate School of Design: "Re-imagining the Archive" and "AI Design for Ocean Solutions". Read more here: stamen.com/two-upcoming...
Read how we visualized the complex structure of the Catholic Church in the US for their first official interactive diocesan map, available now on the blog at stamen.com/exploring-th... #cartography
Lately Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck has been teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Here is the studio report from the workshop he taught last spring, covering the use of AI in design, the nature of archives, and a pedagogy of iteration vs perfection: www.gsd.harvard.edu/publication/...
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 @stadiamaps@en.osm.town 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 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...
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Attached: 1 image "basemaps are a tesseract" Not sure if I posted this before, but posting it again so I can find it by searching for "tesseract". #Tesseract #Hypercube #GalaxyBrain #basemap #basem...
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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
DATA | ART
Data | Art explores the entanglements of data and artistic, scientific, and curatorial practices as a critical examination of how data configures aesthetic, social, and epistemic structures.
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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...
Natural Capital Data is Now at Your Fingertips
New data hub features analysis-ready data for ecosystem service modeling, saving time with downloadable datasets and model outputs for integrating nature’s value into decisions.
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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...
Pollinate Ep.12- Andy Woodruff & Griping About Daylight Saving Time | Stamen
Cartographer Andy Woodruff discusses his career in mapping and his tool that helps you prove whether you're right about Daylight Saving Time.
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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
Taking UCSF’s Health Atlas National | Stamen
Stamen has been working with a team out of UCSF (University of San Francisco) Population Health and Health Equity to create and maintain their Health Atlas since 2019. You can read a bit about the ini...
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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"
