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.