August 27, 2010
This is my first post on our new Citytracking project, which is being supported by a grant from the Knight News Challenge. We've been working on it for a good part of August.Thus far it's been primarily talk and thinking and writing, working on the overall structure of the project, trying to get a handle on what a two year project intended to change the way people talk about cities feels like. I think that it's OK talk about the very early stages...
August 20, 2010
I posted some early examples last week, and SimpleGeo announced this morning the result of our collaboration with them over the past few months: Polymaps.org.
We've been working with...
August 12, 2010
Close readers of Aaron's blog and flickr stream know that he's been thinking for some time about making maps out of things that people do, whether it's geotagging photos or...
August 11, 2010
Did you know that the Cabspotting project we designed with Scott Snibbe for the Exploratorium, is still going strong, providing a live view into the minute-by-minute realtime positions and status of the Yellow Cab taxi service in San Francisco? And that the project has an API that you can use to access this data in close to real time, provided you agree to keep us in the loop...
August 10, 2010
One of these days I'll get around to updating the maps section of our site, 'cause things've changed since the California Stimulus Map (although I still think the Robert Louis Stevenson quote is pretty good, it's basically 1/2 of our whole business plan). In the meantime I wanted to share a...
I'm excited to announce the start of a new kind of project for Stamen, working with the geolocation experts at Quova to explore the opportunities for visualization of their truly ginormous dataset—geographic information on all of the IP addresses on the internet.
What's new here, for us, is that we've agreed to publicly blog about the project; not once it's finished, but as we move forward and develop new ideas....
June 16, 2010
I'm in Boston today with Deborah, Tom & Ben, where the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight News Challenge, has...