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But instead of building libraries around the country, he has made the maps available on the Internet at Cartographica Extraordinaire focuses on 120 maps in particular, and illustrates how historical maps can be used to understand modern issues by incorporating them into geographic information systems. After amassing his wonderful collection, rather than lock it away, he generously decided to make it available to the public. In addition to being a celebrity map collector, Rumsey has become a kind of cartographic Andrew Carnegie. The assimilation, management, and sharing of his collection has become a second career of sorts, and from the perspective commitment of time, appears to have eclipsed his first career in California real estate.

By his own reckoning, his collection contains more than 150,000 pieces, and is generally limited to the New World of the 18th and 19th centuries. PublisherвЂ™s website: David Rumsey, map collector and public benefactor, appears to be a man obsessed with maps. Title: Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed

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