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Saturday, October 09, 2004

Historical Maps
Continuing on the map theme, I have downloaded old colorful maps from this David Rumsey site before. There are other collections that are similar, but this is the grandaddy --10,000 maps! It is intense, and you need to do a little navigating to get the right views. The way I do it, is I download the high res version in MrSid format, and have a viewer that reads that. Locally, the maps automatically bring in a new focused layer as you zoom in, giving you great detail, better than if you had a printed copy, and you can save any area to a jpeg for other uses.

Go to David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: "The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 10,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history."

Oh, if you feel artsy and have a few rainy days of free time, Rumsey's main site, with visual images of art, photos, architecture, etc. 300,000 images, they say.

Tossed in by: R.G.B.
. . . Saturday, October 09, 2004

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