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We are a data visualization and cartography studio with over 20 years of experience helping people find and tell more beautiful stories with data. Learn more at stamen.com

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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...
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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-....
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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...
October 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
September 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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.

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#maps #transit #WashingtonDC
August 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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:

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August 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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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....
July 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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/
July 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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.
June 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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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June 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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...
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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:

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March 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Learn more about the data analysis and visualization tool we helped build for Stanford University's Natural Capital Project:

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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.
naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu
March 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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:

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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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March 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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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March 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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"
February 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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
February 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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

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Stamen at NACIS 2024 | Stamen
The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) 2024 conference in Tacoma, WA was yet another fantastic gathering of cartographers, mappers, and map enthusiasts. Stamen was well-represente...
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November 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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...
Maps and visualizations we’re keeping an eye on for Election Day, Part 1: Polling | Stamen
This is a perfect encapsulation of how we’re all feeling: unsettled. The presidential race has been neck-and-neck for months, even before President Biden decided to step off the ticket back in July. A...
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October 30, 2024 at 6:09 PM
New on our blog: "Telling the Story of Changing Populations With Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas"

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Telling the Story of Changing Populations With Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas | Stamen
Content in this post comes from our presentation at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) 2024 Annual Meeting last week in Tacoma, WA. Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atla...
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October 24, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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!
August 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM
New on the blog, a deep dive into using OpenStreetMap data to render highway shields on maps:

"Highway Shields On the Open(StreetMap) Road"

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Highway Shields On the Open(StreetMap) Road | Stamen
Maps are fascinating things that show us a world that is both deeply personal and excitingly unfamiliar. As professional cartographers, we understand the joy of browsing parts of the world where you’v...
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August 7, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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.

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August 1, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Now on the blog: "The Many Lives of Null Island", by Stamen Lead Cartographer @mappingmashups.bsky.social

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July 23, 2024 at 6:07 PM