See our Text On Maps Help Guide for detailed descriptions on using this exciting new feature. Our new Machines Reading Maps tool that allows searching Text on Maps is now live at 100 million words indexed on 57,000 maps. John Hessler asks Rumsey how his collecting began and evolved over decades, turning a private obsession into a public good. For 15 examples see David Rumsey Sep 18Īn interview with David Rumsey appears this month in the Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society.

His Soho map was recently featured in the New York Times. Painter Loren Munk makes data visualization art works that map the locations, histories, movements, and ontologies of the art world. David Rumsey Nov 6Ī beautiful gift and quote from Michael 'Geschichtsbaum Europa says 4000 years of European history in one view! It is not very well known, but I think it is among the finest attempts to visualize history in the form of a tree.' David Rumsey Oct 7 Made by Italian filmmaker Andrea Gatopoulos, the film will be released in 2024. 'A Stranger Quest,' a film about David Rumsey and his passion for maps premiers at the Torino Film Festival November 30. We have joined all 15 into one continuous map. The 15 meander maps of the Mississippi from Cape Girardeau to Donaldsonville are extraordinary data visualizations. In 1945 Harold Fisk published 27 large scale geological maps of the Mississippi River. David Rumsey Nov 24Ī second trailer to 'A Stranger Quest,' a film by Andrea Gatopoulos about David Rumsey and his map world. Sutnar’s constructivist typography combines with the isotypes of Tschinkel who had worked with Arntz and Neurath in Vienna. Tweets from Follow on Twitter David Rumsey Dec 19ġ935 Mala Vlastiveda Rare brilliant Czech school geography with innovative design and data visualization. View 3 Panoramas of original Collection Spaceīrowse Lists of the Collection's many Atlases

The collection supports the study of topics such as history, ethnography, technology, environmental science, genealogy, and art. Browse search facets: What, Where, Who, When. Civil War, Afghanistan, Moon, Mountains and Rivers, Migration, Languages, Religions, Railroads, Climate, Agriculture, Economics, and Zoological. Subject and place examples: Pictorial, Geology, California, New York City, U.S. Popular collection categories include data visualization, celestial maps, atlases, globes, school geography, maritime charts, city atlases, pocket maps, children's maps, and manuscript maps. Refresh the link to see 250 more. We invite you to get pleasurably lost.Īdvanced search allows refined inquiries for precise results, while browsing encourages serendipitous exploration, honoring the legacy of library shelves. NEW: Random Browse the collection (desktop and tablet only). Here you can see the history of cartography through primary sources from 1500 into the 21st century. The online map collection is a searchable database that allows you to make your own journeys into spatial representations of the past. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, the Pacific, the Arctic, and the World. The historical map collection has over 129,000 maps and related images online. Or take a virtual tour of the Map Center, which hosts events such as the recent Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography : Indigenous mapping. Visit the physical collection at the David Rumsey Map Center at the Stanford University Library.

Read the Blog to learn more about collection highlights, such as Urbano Monte's manuscript world map from 1587. Here you can explore maps through a variety of viewers. Welcome to the David Rumsey Map Collection. View High Resolution Interactive Globe View All Interactive Globes

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