David Rumsey
David Rumsey is a map collector and the founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection. He is also the president of Cartography Associates.
Rumsey has a BA and MFA from Yale University and was a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts, before becaming Associate Director of the American Society for Eastern Arts in San Francisco. He was a lecturer in art at the Yale Art School for several years.
Starting somewhere around 1983, and entering into his third career, Rumsey has collected nearly 150,000 maps of eighteenth - and nineteenth-century North and South America. The collection also features world maps which includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of other maps. The collection is available on his website for free viewing.
Awards, associations and books
For making his map collection public through his website, Lumsey was given an Honors award in 2002 by Special Libraries Association. The website also won Webby Award for Technical Achievement in 2002.
As of January 2006, following are some of the institutions where Rumsey serves as a board member:
- John Carter Brown Library
- American Antiquarian Society
- Stanford University Library Advisory Board
- Yale Library Associates (as a trustee)
- The Long Now Foundation
He is the author of the following books:
- "Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed" - with Edith M. Punt - ISBN 1589480449
- "Historical Maps in GIS" - with Meredith Williams, a chapter in "Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History" - ISBN 1589480325
About Cartography Associates
Cartography Associates was founded in 1996 in San Francisco, CA. It promotes the distribution of digital facsimiles both in print and electronic media. Specializing in both primary source documents and cutting-edge technology, Cartography Associates developes tools that integrate cataloging with visual images on the Internet.
External Links
- Long Now Foundation: [ David Rumsey]
- O'reilly Network: Historical Maps Online by David Rumsey
- Wired.com: This Is a Real Quest for Maps
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