David Rumsey
Founder, David Rumsey Map Collection. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
David Rumsey is the founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection hosted at Stanford University. His archive constitutes one of the largest private collections of historical and digital maps.
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Everything David Rumsey said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
David Rumsey: Holding map data tightly yields less long-term value than sharing
“Generally those who hold information really tight It may have short-term value, but long-term, it does not have nearly as much value as sharing.”
David Rumsey: Sextants were the LIDAR of their day
“I never referred to sextants as primitive. They were, you know, the LIDAR of the day. I mean, sextants opened up the whole world and created the ability to make scale maps and to map essentially beyond where you were.”
David Rumsey: Increased access is cartography's most profound historical shift
“It's the access has been the most profound change. The actual depiction of space, I think, or the goal to depict space has been Remarkably consistent.”
David Rumsey: HD mapping is a 1:1 scale map systems roll through
“HD mapping is a one-to-one mapping, and yet we don't unroll it. We roll through it.”
David Rumsey: Open content has historically been a successful mapping business model
“The whole notion of open content goes back a long time as being a very successful business model in the mapping world.”
David Rumsey: OCR cannot be performed on historical paper maps
“Optical character recognition in old maps, but it's impossible to do because the text is going up and down and they're different fonts and they're artistically.”
David Rumsey: HD mapping achieves cartography's holy grail of living maps
“Opening up a whole new frontier of mapping that is mapping at a very, very high definitional level, which creates a whole new kind of map. When you map at that level of accuracy, you are making a living map, a map that is full of so much information that we've…”
David Rumsey: Digital maps differ from paper maps by having dynamic scale
“One thing that has changed drastically from paper maps is that maps are dynamic now. Maps are changing. You know, with paper maps, we have a sense of scale. The scale is printed onto the map and it's fixed. But with digital maps, the scale is totally fluid and…”
David Rumsey: The 1492 Earth Apple globe omits the Americas
“One of our favorite globes is the, it's called the Earth Apple, which was by Martin Behame, the year Columbus discovered America and there's no North and South America on the globe.”
David Rumsey: Early woodblock printing limited map production to 100 impressions
“So the first maps were done with woodblock. You could only get, you know, a hundred good impressions.”
David Rumsey: Abraham Ortelius published the first world atlas in 1570
“The first atlas was published in 1570 by Abraham Ortelius, and It was actually the best-selling book in Europe for years and years and years, and the reason it was so important to people was there were maps of the entire world in the book.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 a16zLEDGER | Founder, David Rumsey Map Collection | 1 | 12 | 67% 2/3 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |