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Dave Rumsey Maps
Dave Rumsey Maps
California Map Society, 2022 Conference: David Rumsey Interview by David Rumsey Map uploaded Jul 6, 2022 on YouTube
David Rumsey is interviewed by Tom Paper, Vice President of the California Map Society. Tom talks with David about his early years and college, his first work experiences involving art and technology, his transition to real estate development and his current activities with the David Rumsey Center, Luna Imaging and Cartography Associates.
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February 11, 2023 post by David Rumsey Map Collection on Facebook:
The Rumsey maps online image database crossed over 120,000 items today. A milestone of sorts. 10 million map images downloaded since site opened in 1999. View link below for 500+ selections from the past 5 years of additions. https://www.davidrumsey.com/.../online-rumsey...
April 14, 2023 post by Internet Archive on Facebook:
Cartography lovers unite! The David Rumsey Map Collection is home to more than 100,000 historic maps, atlases, charts, and diagrams, dating from the 16th century to the modern day - https://mailchi.mp/archive.org/email-20230413rumseymaps
David Rumsey Map Collection at the Internet Archive has over 111,000 maps!
Description: The David Rumsey Map Collection was founded in 1985 and went online in 1999 at davidrumsey.com. The collection includes over 200,000 rare 16th through 21st century maps of the entire World and parts of the Universe. 115,000 maps and related items are available online and 60,000 of those have been georeferenced. Rumsey has been donating the physical map collection and the digital database made from it to the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries since 2008. The map center opened in 2016.The online map collection is a searchable database that allows you to make your own journeys into spatial representations of the past. Here you can see the history of cartography through primary sources from the present to centuries past. In 2022 Rumsey gave the entire digital collection to the Internet Archive to preserve and make available in the Archive's online library.
August 31, 2023 post by the David Rumsey Map Collection on Facebook:
Our new Machines Reading Maps tool that allows searching Text on Maps is now live at davidrumsey.com 100 million words indexed on 57,000 maps. Users can correct any errors. See our Text On Maps Help Guide for detailed descriptions on using this exciting new feature.
September 18, 2023 post by David Rumsey Map Collection on Facebook:
An interview with David Rumsey appears this month in the Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society. John Hessler asks Rumsey how his collecting began and evolved over decades, turning a private obsession into a public good. Full PDF at