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Some of the best cartography and most iconic OpenStreetMap styles have found a new home at Stadia Maps. Help us welcome Stamen x Stadia Maps—world-class cartography for everyone! 🗺️🎉

Happy Birthday #OpenStreetMap! Today is the 20th birthday of OpenStreetMap, the free map of the world created by thousands of volunteers all around the globe. Stamen has worked with #OSM data since the very beginning, and the open-mapping ethos is part of our DNA. A few years ago we wrote a two-part history of Stamen's long relationship with OSM, and you can read it here on our blog: https://lnkd.in/gWB7agxe Stay tuned for part three of this history, which we will be publishing next week!

New on the blog from Ross Thorn, a deep dive into using OpenStreetMap data to render highway shields on maps: "Highway Shields On the Open(StreetMap) Road" https://lnkd.in/gJfjABdD #OpenStreetMap #cartography #design #maps

Last week our Lead Cartographer Alan McConchie wrote a blog post about the history of Null Island, the imaginary place where 0º latitude and 0º longitude meet. It has now come to our attention that the NOAA weather station moored at that spot, nicknamed by geographers as the "Null Island Buoy", apparently no longer exists! Farewell, Null Island Buoy, we hardly knew ye. Check out the update at the end of Alan's blog post for more details of the buoy's untimely demise. https://lnkd.in/gSUQhKMn

Alan McConchie brings his decades of experience at the forefront of online mapping, plus a deep engagement with the history of mapping nerds, to this terrific post about Null Island and why you should care about the place where zero degrees longitude and zero degrees latitude meet.

Now on the blog: "The Many Lives of Null Island" by Stamen Lead Cartographer Alan McConchie https://lnkd.in/gSUQhKMn

Last month I gave a talk at the State of the Map US conference about our work migrating Stamen's famous 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: https://lnkd.in/g-9wttNA

👵🗺️ Ever wondered what grandmas and golf carts have to do with open-source GIS software? If you're at FOSS4G Europe in Tartu next week, you can find out! I'll be there with Stadia Maps to tell all about creating a low-speed vehicle profile for #Valhalla (all so we could save Grandma from the semis) and to recap the challenges and success of rebuilding Stamen's map tiles. Hope to see you there!

An ecosystem is a complex web of relationships between flora and fauna 🐟🦆🌱🦌 We worked with MPG Ranch to create a tool that models how a change in one species will affect everything else! Read more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/gfEUbkST

Interactivity allows users to engage with data in more impactful and enjoyable ways! Read our latest blog post to learn from Stamen designer Caroline Carter about how we employ interactivity in our work: https://lnkd.in/gFmQDvqS