David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

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"Graeciae Antiquae Tabula Nova" from 1708.
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"Graeciae Antiquae Tabula Nova" from 1708.

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is one of the world's largest private collections of some 150,000 maps and cartographic items. The collection was created by David Rumsey, who after making his fortune in real estate, focused on collecting eighteenth- and nineteenth-century North and South America as this era "saw the rise of modern cartography."[1] There are now over 11,000 digitized maps available through his website, http://www.davidrumsey.com, and about a dozen of which are currently being hosted through Google Earth layers. The website presents maps using two viewers - one using Javascript and the other using Java - from files stored in MrSID format on its server. Maps can be exported as JPEG from the Java viewer.

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  1. ^ http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/27/DDG6K8UNN81.DTL
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