{"id":1805778,"date":"2021-12-27T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805778"},"modified":"2021-12-27T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T00:44:55","slug":"map-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/map-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Map Heaven’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI call this \u2018map heaven,\u2019\u201d said G. Salim Mohammed, the center\u2019s head and curator. \u201cThis is a place where maps come alive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>\u2019s piece<\/a> on the David Rumsey Map Center<\/a> (paywalled; alternative Apple News+ link<\/a>) focuses on the digital experiments undertaken by the center to make maps more accessible. (Examples we\u2019ve covered here previously include digitally assembled versions of the Urbano Monte Map<\/a> and a 1940 model of San Francisco<\/a>, and also an\u00a0AR globe app<\/a>.) [David Rumsey Map Collection<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI call this \u2018map heaven,\u2019\u201d said G. Salim Mohammed, the center\u2019s head and curator. \u201cThis is a place where maps come alive.\u201d The San Francisco Chronicle\u2019s piece on the David Rumsey Map Center (paywalled; alternative… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48,400,401],"class_list":["post-1805778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-libraries","tag-rumsey","tag-stanford","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786961,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/giant-1940-model-of-san-francisco-digitally-assembled\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805778,"position":0},"title":"Giant 1940 Model of San Francisco Digitally Assembled","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 January 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"A massive wooden model of the city of San Francisco that has not been on display, at least in one piece, since 1942 has been re-assembled as a virtual model by the David Rumsey Map Collection. 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