1935 Mala Vlastiveda [The Little Civics Reader] Rare brilliant Czech school geography with innovative design and data visualization. Sutnar’s constructivist typography combines with the isotypes of Tschinkel who had worked with Arntz and Neurath in Vienna. https://t.co/ioj6JtSgSQ https://t.co/z2qC9WB6a5
A second trailer to "A Stranger Quest," a film by Andrea Gatopoulos about David Rumsey and his map world. Full release in 2024. YouTube link: https://t.co/7XGQ1MMhYe https://t.co/pwGSpW64uv
In 1945 Harold Fisk published 27 large scale geological maps of the Mississippi River. The 15 meander maps of the Mississippi from Cape Girardeau to Donaldsonville are extraordinary data visualizations. We have joined all 15 into one continuous map. https://t.co/sPLJdzbqAY https://t.co/DsFztK26lw
"A Stranger Quest," a film about David Rumsey and his passion for maps premiers at the Torino Film Festival November 30. Below is a trailer. Made by Italian filmmaker Andrea Gatopoulos, the film will be released in 2024. https://t.co/yT17D8rebL
A beautiful gift and quote from Michael Friendly@datavisFriendly: "Geschichtsbaum Europa says 4000 years of European history in one view! It is not very well known, but I think it is among the finest attempts to visualize history in the form of a tree..." https://t.co/4CdIfzoMOv https://t.co/8WGasq7CVP
Painter Loren Munk makes data visualization art works that map the locations, histories, movements, and ontologies of the art world. His Soho map was recently featured in the New York Times. For 15 examples see https://t.co/ucp46RcMV0 https://t.co/cirbNFYVrn
An interview with David Rumsey appears this month in the Portolan, the journal of the Washington Map Society. John Hessler asks Rumsey how his collecting began and evolved over decades, turning a private obsession into a public good. Full PDF at https://t.co/ZMomPbNrfh https://t.co/yIP8SBFxIz
Our new Machines Reading Maps tool that allows searching Text on Maps is now live at https://t.co/I78lXjjztf 100 million words indexed on 57,000 maps. Users can correct any errors. See our Text On Maps Help Guide for detailed descriptions on using this exciting new feature. https://t.co/KUUyCRMxTx
Manuscript maps from Piri Reis, to Frances Henshaw, to R. Crumb, to Anonymous Vietnamese, to over 1,000 more at https://t.co/CFo0nBnP94 https://t.co/Fi1bZaZFhK
Levi Walter Yaggy (1842-1912) made brilliant maps and views for education in the 1887 Geographical Study and the 1893 Geographical Portfolio. 34 color plates of the world and universe inspired wonder. See all https://t.co/0D7PvpTOGF. See https://t.co/IACS645IUS for Yaggy's life. https://t.co/r9YpkmC8bo
Richard Edes Harrison (1901-1994) made maps that radically changed our world view. As chief cartographer for Fortune Magazine, Harrison developed mapping concepts later found in GIS, data visualization, and thematic cartography. See 142 of his maps: https://t.co/T75e3bl5G1 https://t.co/k3ZBKQdRlt
24 oblique highly detailed San Francisco aerial views. Anonymous photographer took pictures from a plane. Circa 1930. Printed by "Staples Quality Prints / 910 Market St. Opposite Fifth." Before Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge were built. See group here: https://t.co/pDXizJBEZQ https://t.co/9KkaWKmr8Q
Video of partial results of searching for Himalaya, Mississippi River, Paris, Ruin, and Water in our new Machines Reading Maps tool. 100 million words indexed on 57,000 maps. Final version will be public in a month. Clicking results will open the full map with text highlighted. https://t.co/TJPBhg6Gtf
Mapping and data visualization of 19th century balloon journeys. "Travels in the Air," 1871, by James Glaisher. A new way of seeing the earth. With thanks to RJ Andrews @infowetrust for bringing this to us. https://t.co/SN2XA63bQe https://t.co/N9E5UnoeA0
12 Bellerby 65cm Prussian Blue color hand painted gores assembled as virtual globe. Interactive version at https://t.co/mcJGaNOj9u https://t.co/NI71n3WCEo
12 Bellerby 65cm Yellow Ochre color hand painted gores assembled as virtual globe. Interactive version at https://t.co/jjxmSwDsUF https://t.co/Lmy6sUrcsL
12 Bellerby 65cm Schmincke Gagarin color hand painted gores assembled as virtual globe. Interactive version at https://t.co/Qxmptfc4W5 https://t.co/RNQUvNAvUE
3 sets of 12 Peter Bellerby & Co Globemakers 65cm hand painted untrimmed 2023 Globe Gores. The Bellerby globe gores were georeferenced using a Polyconic projection and then reprojected to create different virtual interactive globes and maps. See all 45 at https://t.co/3KyDyifYbS https://t.co/xSbllYRJuz
Full program for Machines Reading Maps Conference April 20-21 at David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Library. Charting the future of historical cartography as data. https://t.co/d6KhCkXFT3 Register for public session https://t.co/yl5sUKhFlT https://t.co/LZQtXjWpW9
The first data visualization flow maps, predating Minard's flow maps by several years, from the 1838 Irish Railway Commission Atlas. And a pioneering choropleth population map of Ireland, as well as the first geological map of Ireland, in the same atlas. https://t.co/zp1satyBYZ https://t.co/9iwlyZUfrR
New exhibit at Stanford Rumsey Map Center- Seeing Cities: 10 Maps Over 200 Years. March 1 - May 31, 2023. Opening event April 19, 2023 4:30-6:30pm. Weekdays 1-5pm. Seeing the history of cities through these maps provides unique perspectives on forces that shape the urban world. https://t.co/IorGa7IGPl
Stunning images from Sigismond Visconti's 1830 Tableaux du Système Planétaire. Showing the solar system, orbit of the annual revolution of the earth around the sun and indication of the seasons, phases of the moon, eclipses of the sun and moon, and more. https://t.co/0i16xxgkJD https://t.co/xIaU4uVOWY
Stanford's David Rumsey Map Center is seeking a new Head and Curator to lead the Center. Details and contacts here: https://t.co/J1bX1w0pGC https://t.co/t8deGGwi5a
Buckminster Fuller first published his Dymaxion World Globe in Life Magazine, March 1, 1943. Very different from his 1954 edition of the Dymaxion Globe. We digitally assembled his 14 gores as Life readers might have done physically with paper and tape. https://t.co/BlraArzd7n https://t.co/tTllSImPvh
A gem of Soviet data visualization from 1933 - ЖЕНЩИНЫ В СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОМ СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВЕ СОЮЗА ССР [Women in Socialist Construction of the Soviet Union]. https://t.co/nBznSt3sxw https://t.co/NUcyqTFwmG
The Rumsey maps online image database crossed over 120,000 items today. A milestone of sorts. 10 million map images downloaded since site opened in 1999. View link below for 500+ selections from the past 5 years of additions. https://t.co/D456JU4Ki9 https://t.co/au9pDv5wWb
400 years of Timelines from 1606 to 2005. Mapping time is a powerful area of cartography - time as space and space in time. Over 300 examples in our collection can be seen at https://t.co/kv4fOEXr9e https://t.co/UtepaxJIGl
The beautiful cartography of Eduard Imhof created for a Swiss middle school atlas - "Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas herausgegeben von der Konferenz der kantonalen Erziehungsdirektoren. Fünfzehnte Auflage, 1969." https://t.co/Gm27h16yrc https://t.co/9TFnlnN4Ed
Early data visualization: William Playfair "An inquiry into the permanent causes of the decline and fall of powerful and wealthy nations ..." 1805 https://t.co/XZFKXUKFmS https://t.co/f4RliozRkn
Launched the 10ft rotating 1587 Urbano Monte wall map today with our friends from @JSKstanford https://t.co/WDWNTbyJIA https://t.co/xCzIkSFUzZ
