In the same year the site won a Webby Award for Technical Achievement. In 02002, Rumsey was given an Honors Award from the Special Libraries Association for making his private map collection available to the public via the Internet. The site is free to the public and is updated monthly. Currently the online collection has over 22,000 high resolution images of maps from his collection.
In 01995, Rumsey began the task of making his collection public by building the online David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
His collection, with more than 150,000 maps, is one of the largest private map collections in the United States.
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Rumsey retired from real estate in 01995 and founded Cartography Associates, beginning a third career as a digital publisher, online library builder, and software entrepreneur.ĭavid Rumsey began building a collection of North and South American historical maps and related cartographic materials in 01980. Later, he entered a 20 year career in real estate development and finance during which he had a long association with the General Atlantic Holding Company of New York and served as President and Director of several of its real estate subsidiaries General Atlantic eventually became the Atlantic Trust, a Bermuda based philanthropic foundation that is one of the world's largest charities. He subsequently became Associate Director of the American Society for Eastern Arts in San Francisco. He was a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts, a group of artists working with electronic technologies. David Rumsey is President of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing company based in San Francisco, and is a director of Luna Imaging, a provider of enterprise software for online image collections.
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