David Rumsey
@DavidRumseyMaps
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1877 Eadweard Muybridge Panorama of San Francisco in 11 sheets. One of the landmarks of 19th-century American photography, and an iconic panoramic image of San Francisco, accompanied by the rare Key to Muybridge's work. High resolution image
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A Stranger Quest, a documentary and art film combined by Andrea Gatopoulos, surveys the life of David Rumsey and his passion for maps. The film was released to the public in December 2024. Watch it in its entirety at
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60,000 new maps, views, texts, titles, diagrams, globes, timelines and more have been added to search for Text on Maps - doubling to 120,000 items from the original 60,000 we started with a year ago. Over 175 million words indexed! Try searching for Cairo
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The Speed of the Earth, lights move at rotational speed of earth on axis, 1156ft/sec at lat 40.79571, lon -119.18323. Using GPS to time the flashes. A moving map.
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The Speed of the Earth art installation seen from the man at Burning Man during the day:
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Map of The Speed of the Earth on the outer playa at Burning Man.
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Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz, 1929, Die Bunte Welt. (The colorful world : Pictorial statistics for the youth). Brilliant data visualizations show school children the ethnic, religious, industrial, agricultural, political, and climatic variations of the world.
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Rand McNally made Air Trails maps for every U.S. state starting in 1929. Similar to their Auto Trails maps, the Air Trails maps showed the new air routes and airports serving them. They remain a record of the early air age in America, now mostly vanished.
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@FMontety @XemartinLaborde For fielded dates our system needs single numbers not ranges, but agree that 1876 would better so have changed to that.
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RT @mappingbernie: Globes 1.2 for the #AppleVisionPro can now show globes of the David Rumsey Map Center as 360°-panoramas and place multip…
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35 Japanese infographics from 1944 designed to help the public survive intense fire bombing raids by US planes during World War II. Made by the Great Japan Air Defense Association, they combine strong persuasive power through outstanding graphic design.
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Join us for the public launch of the next generation of OldMapsOnline with the new TimeMap. Wednesday, May 15, from 9:30am to 12:30pm PDT at the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University. Attend in person or virtually. Details and registration here -
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Collaboration between the Rumsey Map Center at Stanford and Monash University’s Embodied Visualisation Group has produced Globes, an App for the new Apple Vision Pro. Blog post by Dilpreet Singh who with Bernie Jenny and Kadek Satriadi developed the App.
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