PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Design, Stamen
TI  - Mapping What Is
AID  - 10.1525/boom.2014.4.2.68
DP  - 2014 Jun 01
TA  - Boom: A Journal of California
PG  - 68--75
VI  - 4
IP  - 2
4099  - http://boom.ucpress.edu/content/4/2/68.short
4100  - http://boom.ucpress.edu/content/4/2/68.full
AB  - Stamen Design, a studio specializing in live data visualizations and interactive mapping, overlooks the busy corner of Mission and Sixteenth Streets in San Francisco, builds “objects to think with.” This article is a portfolio of some of their San Francisco-related mapping work: Crimespotting, an interactive map of crimes in San Francisco and Oakland; Parks.stamen.com visualizes the stories and images that pour out of parks, open spaces, and natural areas in the city and state; Surging Seas highlights what will be lost as rising sea levels take back land, put property underwater, and disproportionately displace different communities; and Creative Commons-license map tilesets, including the whimsical “Watercolor,” let people create their own map styles and imagine different ways of seeing the city.