diff --git a/examples/stamen.html b/examples/stamen.html
index 811d378633..930c971209 100644
--- a/examples/stamen.html
+++ b/examples/stamen.html
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
 
         <div class="span4">
           <h4 id="title">Stamen example</h4>
-          <p id="shortdesc">Example of a Stamen tile source.</p>
+          <p id="shortdesc">Example of a Stamen tile source.  Two layers are composed: the watercolor base layer with the terrain labels.</p>
           <div id="docs">
             <p>See the <a href="stamen.js" target="_blank">stamen.js source</a> to see how this is done.</p>
           </div>
-          <div id="tags">stamen, watercolor</div>
+          <div id="tags">stamen, watercolor, terrain-labels, two-layers</div>
         </div>
 
       </div>
diff --git a/examples/stamen.js b/examples/stamen.js
index ff505b2364..0cfbaa966a 100644
--- a/examples/stamen.js
+++ b/examples/stamen.js
@@ -3,27 +3,28 @@ goog.require('ol.Map');
 goog.require('ol.RendererHints');
 goog.require('ol.View2D');
 goog.require('ol.layer.TileLayer');
+goog.require('ol.projection');
 goog.require('ol.source.Stamen');
 
 
-var layers = [
-  new ol.layer.TileLayer({
-    source: new ol.source.Stamen({
-      layer: 'watercolor'
-    })
-  }),
-  new ol.layer.TileLayer({
-    source: new ol.source.Stamen({
-      layer: 'terrain-labels'
-    })
-  })
-];
 var map = new ol.Map({
-  layers: layers,
+  layers: [
+    new ol.layer.TileLayer({
+      source: new ol.source.Stamen({
+        layer: 'watercolor'
+      })
+    }),
+    new ol.layer.TileLayer({
+      source: new ol.source.Stamen({
+        layer: 'terrain-labels'
+      })
+    })
+  ],
   renderers: ol.RendererHints.createFromQueryData(),
   target: 'map',
   view: new ol.View2D({
-    center: new ol.Coordinate(0, 0),
-    zoom: 3
+    center: ol.projection.transformWithCodes(
+        new ol.Coordinate(-122.416667, 37.783333), 'EPSG:4326', 'EPSG:3857'),
+    zoom: 12
   })
 });