The David Rumsey GIS Viewer allows on-line visitors a unique opportunity to easily interact with, integrate, and visualize these historic maps along with the modern geospatial data from NASA, USGS, ESRI and GCS Research. Users can overlay of current geospatial data with historical maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection.
Eleven historical ... maps of the San Francisco Bay area from 1851 to 1926, eighteen historical maps of the Boston area from 1776 thru 1897, and over thirty historical maps covering the area of the 1804 - 1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition are now available for viewing in the GIS Browser. Additional historic maps of U.S. cities and regions will be added in the near future including Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Yosemite Valley, and Lake Tahoe.
The current geospatial data that can be overlaid and compared to the historical maps includes roads, lakes, parks, state boundaries, digital orthophotos (aerial photography), topographic mapsheets, digital elevation models and satellite imagery.
The modern geospatial data that can be overlaid and compared to the historical maps includes urban areas, transportation infrastructure (roads, rail), public land survey, lakes, parks, state boundaries, digital elevation models and satellite imagery. Users can create, save, and print custom maps, as well interactively blend/fade/merge and overlay/swipe multiple map layers for enabling real-time visual change analysis over the Internet. Results of the user customized map layer visualizations can be saved and downloaded as new images, complete with the georeferencing information, thereby allowing easy integration into other desktop GIS applications.
Browser technology:
Telemorphic, Inc. built the browser starting with their standard Maplicity and MapImager products, and added custom application development to support simultaneous review of multiple historical maps in a linked viewer environment. Telemorphic uses ArcIMS from ESRI, Inc. to provide the server-side GIS functionality for the site. Internet and ArcIMS ASP hosting is provided by Lightspeed Technologies, Inc. The geospatial data is provided by USGS BARD and ESRI, Inc.
Images copyright 2000 by Cartography Associates. Images may not be reproduced or transmitted unless for personal use. For commercial use or republication, contact rumsey@luna-img.com.
Name:
DAVID
RUMSEY
Phone:
310-452-8370
Fax:
310-452-8389
Email:
rumsey at luna-img.com
Contact Address:
Luna Imaging, Inc.
3542 Hayden Avenue, Building One City:
Culver City
Province or State:
CA
Postal Code:
90232-2413
Country:
USA
Distribution Media
Distribution_Media:
electronic
Distribution_Size:
varies per map
Fees:
no fees
Personnel
DAVID
RUMSEY Role:
TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone:
310-452-8370
Fax:
310-452-8389
Email:
rumsey at luna-img.com
Contact Address:
Luna Imaging, Inc.
3542 Hayden Avenue, Building One City:
Culver City
Province or State:
CA
Postal Code:
90232-2413
Country:
USA
TYLER
B.
STEVENS Role:
SERF AUTHOR
Phone:
(301) 614-6898
Fax:
301-614-5268
Email:
Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory City:
Greenbelt
Province or State:
MD
Postal Code:
20771
Country:
USA
Creation and Review Dates
SERF Creation Date: SERF Last Revision Date:
2006-07-21
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