Stamen Design

With the NYU WILD Lab, we launched the Urban Wildlife Atlas, an interactive tool that showcases wild animals & their local environments in NYC. Learn more & sign up for our webinar about maps, dataviz, and interactive experiences centered on the natural environment. stamen.com/mapping-wild...

New post: our basemaps got some refreshed water details thanks to our partners at @stadiamaps.com! Check it out on the blog: stamen.com/refreshing-n...

Just published: our recap of the 2026 @osmus.bsky.social conference. In this post Lead Cartographer @mappingmashups.net explores some results from our Cartographic Tooling Census & shares highlights from his talk about mapping totem poles in #OpenStreetMap. Read more: stamen.com/stamen-at-st...

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

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

We're excited to share that Stamen founder and CEO Eric Rodenbeck will be the keynote speaker at the #Outlier2026 #dataviz conference next month!

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...

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

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 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....

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...

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...