{"id":1233,"date":"2012-04-02T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T11:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:11:40","slug":"stamen-design-watercolour-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2012\/stamen-design-watercolour-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamen Design&#8217;s Watercolour Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/stamenwatercolour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/stamenwatercolour.jpg\" alt=\"stamenwatercolour\" width=\"605\" height=\"451\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/stamenwatercolour.jpg 605w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/stamenwatercolour-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stamen.com\/\">Stamen Design<\/a> are a bespoke design and technology company based in San Francisco. They have a reputation for creating wonderful looking maps, often with OpenStreetMap data, and their latest map is quite stunning &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.stamen.com\/watercolor\/#15\/51.5072\/-0.1302\">Watercolour Map<\/a>. The textures applied to the map give it a lovely, hand-drawn look, although of course it&#8217;s actually some very clever programming that is allowing the imagery to be produced automatically &#8211; for the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>Stamen <a href=\"http:\/\/content.stamen.com\/watercolor_textures\">go into detail on the textures<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/content.stamen.com\/watercolor_process\">the general creation process<\/a> in wonderful detail on their blog, which also <a href=\"http:\/\/content.stamen.com\/maps_dot_stamen_dot_com_is_live\">introduces the style and two others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Map imagery CC-By Stamen Design, based on OpenStreetMap data CC-By-SA OpenStreetMap contributors.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stamen Design are a bespoke design and technology company based in San Francisco. They have a reputation for creating wonderful looking maps, often with OpenStreetMap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[285,289,288,287],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-data","tag-decorative","tag-painting","tag-stamen","tag-watercolour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}