Stamen design Field Papers

  • Posted on: 30 May 2012
  • By: köbben

Stamen design (webmapping & design company, known for providing interactive webapps for the VPRO series "Nederland van Boven") is announcing "Field Papers" a web mapping services for paper maps!

At first glance, it looks like a nifty system that could be quite useful for fieldwork...

From their web page http://content.stamen.com/announcing_field_papers: "We've just rolled out a new way for you to make atlases of the world, called Field Papers. Field Papers allows you to print a multipage paper atlas of anywhere in the world and take it outside, offline, into the field. You can scribble on it, add features, or make notes about the area, all without a GPS or complicated GIS software.
Once you've annotated your atlas, you can upload photographs of each page back into the system to transcribe your notes into digital form. Each atlas gets its own page on Field Papers, and a simple history of edits and activity which you can share with friends or colleagues, and download for later analysis. Take a look at some of the atlases that have already been created on the Watch page, or browse by place, like France or Liberia."