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Stamen Blog
content.stamen.com · Company blog · on HN since 2007
Stamen is a San Francisco design studio that writes about its map and data visualization projects, such as watercolor tiles and Cabspotting.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for Stamen's watercolor map tiles and the process write-up, and for visualizations like SV commuter buses and a day of market data.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Watercolor Process: How Stamen made watercolor map tiles2 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 2Zach Watson, Stamen Design Alum, has passed away1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 3Cabspotting, always in progress (visualize realtime GPS positions of San Francisco taxi cabs)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 4Stamen announces Field Papers for OSM mapping1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 5Stamen design | What we did in 20111 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 6Announcing Burningmap1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 7Natural Earth v.2.0.0 is live1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 8Facebook: mapping how viral photos spread1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 9Maps.stamen.com is live1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10MapStack: Maps for All1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11Toner V2 is live, and there are historical versions1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Announcing here.stamen.com1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13The Parks Conservancy Map: The Baking Of A Multi-Layered Data Cake1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 14Humaniterrain1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15I like bing maps and I cannot lie1 people · first shared 2010
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twp · 2014-03-23
Stamen made some lovely world wide watercolour tiles:
http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782
They explained the process on their blog:
http://content.stamen.com/watercolor_process
Thrymr · 2013-01-11
Love the map of SV private commuter bus lines linked there: http://content.stamen.com/zero1
anigbrowl · 2015-07-16
I wonder where you would go about obtaining high resolution market data? e.g.
[ticker_symbol, buyer_id, seller_id, volume, price, time[]]
I'd like to find a way to visualize the algorithms, along the lines of http://content.stamen.com/visualizing_a_day_of_financial_transactions_… or so. I don't care about the specific securities or trader identities, I just like finding patterns in noisy data.
pragetruif · 2010-12-03
It's interesting that Bing actually brought in an outside team (Stamen Design) to design (version 2 of?) their maps: http://content.stamen.com/i_like_bing_maps_and_I_cannot_lie
pwpwp · 2012-01-27
Instead of whether we should use Pi or 2*Pi, I find much more interesting R. Buckminster Fuller's statements that "Pi is operationally irrelevant" and that "Nature is not using Pi".
"Inasmuch as the kind of mathematics I had learned of in school required the use of the XYZ coordinate system and the necessity of placing π in calculating the spheres, I wondered, "to how many decimal places does nature carry out π before she decides that the computation can't be concluded?" Next I wondered, "to how many aribtrary decimal places does nature carry out the transcendental irrational before she decides to say it's a bad job and call it off?" If nature uses π she has to do what we call fudging of her design which means improvising, compromisingly. I thought sympathetically of nature's having to make all those myriad frustrated decisions each time she made a bubble. I didn't see how she managed to formulate the wake of every ship while managing the rest of the universe if she had to make all those decisions. So I said to myself, "I don't think nature uses π. I think she has some other mathematical way of coordinating her undertakings.""
From http://content.stamen.com/buckminster_fuller_and_the_beauty_of_bubbles