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Watercolor Maptiles Website Enters Permanent Collection of Cooper Hewitt
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Watercolor Maptiles—a web-based, open-source mapping tool designed by Stamen Design that displays OpenStreetMap’s data with the hand-hewn textures of watercolor paint—has been acquired by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for its digital design collection. It is the Smithsonian’s first acquisition of a live website into its collections, consisting of over 56 million map tiles (separate png...
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- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
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- Tue, 18 May 2021 15:47:41 +0000
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- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
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- Design
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- posts_d86ba04db0c1e6caf17554390cf020eb
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