DavidRumsey.com

The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 30 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children’s, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present.

Digitization of the collection began in 1996 and there are now over 100,000 items online, with new pieces added regularly. The site is free and open to the public. Here viewers have access not only to high resolution images of maps that are extensively cataloged, but also to a variety of tools that allow to users to compare, analyze, and view items in new and experimental ways.

Maps are uniquely suited to high-resolution scanning because of the large amount of detailed information they contain. In their original form, maps and atlases can be large, delicate, and unwieldy. Digitization increases their accessibility, and when combined with online catalogs, they can be searched in a variety of ways. David Rumsey’s website allows public access to rare maps that have been hidden or available only to a few.

David Rumsey has donated his entire physical map colltection to Stanford University where it is housed at the David Rumsey Map Center in the Stanford Library. The Rumsey Map Center is open to the public weekdays from 1-5pm and weekday mornings by appointment. Stanford also archives all of Rumsey’s digital map collection in the Stanford Digital Repository. Rumsey continues to make his collection available online at Davidrumsey.com

ABOUT THE WEBSITE:

• Domain Name: davidrumsey.com
  Creation Date: 2000-01-24
  Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC
  Registrar IANA ID: 2

• Server IP: 146.148.44.2
  ASN: AS15169
  ISP: Google LLC
  Server Location: California, USA

• Programming Language: Ruby
  Web Server: Apache, Phusion Passenger
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• Title: davidrumsey.com
  Description: Collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South American maps and other historic materials. Browse 100,000 Maps and Images in Luna Viewer. Visit David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Library. View Maps Recently Added to Online Collection.
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WEBSITE SCORES:

• Content: 92%
  Usefulness: 90%
  Design: 86%
  Creativity: 86%
  Usability: 87%
  Responsiveness: 71%

AND THE AWARD GOES TO:

Today’s Web Award goes to DavidRumsey.com, thanks to the beautiful collection of about 100.000 maps generously offered free to website visitors. Congratulations.

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