Stamen’s Truly Amazing Trulia Maps
Stamen Design is a small visual design firm based in San Francisco. The company is probably most famous for creating visualizations for Digg.com (Swarm and Stack). The Stamen guys are here at Where 2.0 to show off two new mapping projects they’ve created using Flash.
Stamen’s Shawn Allen and Tom Carden debuted Trulia Hindsight (see the screenshot above), a map mashup that shows when houses in specific neighborhoods were built by plotting them on an animated timeline. The construction time data is provided by real estate site Trulia. Houses glow different colors as they are built and re-built over the decades.
We also saw a walk-through of Stamen’s new project site, Modest Maps. The site hosts an open-source code package written by Stamen’s Michal Migurski. The code lets developers create animated, tile-based maps in Flash using public data and open-source maps from OpenStreetMaps, NASA and other free sources. One very cool application built by Mike uses police activity logs to show a time-based display of prostitution arrests Oakland, California over several weeks.
