In 2014, writer and UCLA professor Jon Allan Christensen joined Stamen as a partner and strategic advisor.

[7] In 2017 Stamen was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum to design and develop Big Glass Microphone,[8] an interactive, online visualization of the acoustic vibrations picked up by a fiber-optic cable buried beneath a road at Stanford University.

It's a transformative process, a work of explanation.” In 2015 Stamen partnered with Hipcamp and GreenInfo Network[11] to develop CaliParks, a bilingual, statewide, parks search engine that brings together park boundary and management data in California with social media content from Instagram, Flickr, Twitter, and Foursquare.

[12] Stamen is the developer and maintainer of Field Papers,[13] an open source tool for humanitarian mapping that lets users annotate OpenStreetMap in areas without internet connectivity.

[20] In 2010, Stamen was awarded a US$400,000 grant from the Knight Foundation[21] to create a series of freely-available web maps based on OpenStreetMap data.