The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is a large private map collection with over 150,000 maps and cartographic items. The collection was created by David Rumsey who, after making his fortune in real estate, focused initially on collecting 18th- and 19th century maps of North and South America, as this era "saw the rise of modern cartography."[1]
World Atlas page "Ostpreußen" from 1925
After 2004 Rumsey expanded the collection to include maps from the 16th through 21st centuries, covering more of the world. In 2008 the collection's website was cited as one of only seven websites with freely available "skillfully compiled carto-bibliographic entries with corresponding early-map images."[2] At that time the site comprised 16,000 digital images.[2]
In February 2009, David Rumsey announced that the entire collection would be donated to Stanford University, including 150,000 maps and their digital images, as well as the database used to track the images.[3] Stanford houses the collection in the new David Rumsey Map Center which opened in the main library in 2016. The website (where the images are posted on-line) was to continue as a separate public resource.
As of February 2022, there were over 114,000 digitized items available through the website,[4] hundreds of which were hosted through Google Earth layers. Select maps are also featured at the Rumsey Maps island in Second Life. as well as 2D and 3D GIS. A new MapRank search tool has been added enabling geographical searching of about 60,000 maps from the collection by map location and coverage. In addition, a georeferencing tool has been added that allows site users to georeference and display any of the maps in the collection. The website has additional viewers from Luna Imaging, Inc, including the LUNA browser which doesn’t require any special plug-ins or software to view the collection, zoom into image detail, create slide shows, media groups, or presentations.
The website also has a blog listing new additions to the collection, featured maps, news, videos, and related sites.
When a document is found on the website, it is usually accompanied by extensive metadata, such as author, date of publication, short title, type, dimensions, note(s), area, full title of the document, full title of the publication it may be part of with notes and download options.[5]
References
^Ganahl, Jane (27 September 2004). "David Rumsey made a living in real estate. Then he charted his future to match his passion: maps". The San Francisco Chronicle.
^ abJoel Kovarsky (2008), "Carto-Bibliography on the Web: Links Combining Text and Image", Imago Mundi, vol. 60, no.1, pp. 93–96. JSTOR 40234119.
^"Maps of Americas past". Stanford News Service. Stanford University. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
^E.g.: Caarte Vande Reede ende Haven van Medenblick, hoemen die ... by Willem Jansz. Blaeu from 1620
External links
David Rumsey Map Collection: Cartography Associates
Media related to David Rumsey Historical Map Collection at Wikimedia Commons
August 19, 2023
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