Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography. While his ...

A map collection used by British monarch King George III has been made available to the public. The collection includes maps from famous events like Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and the American War ...

Robert Berlo on one of his many road trips. Maps from Robert Berlo’s collection, donated after his death to the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at Stanford University. A detail from ...

Meet the man who has Britain’s biggest map collection owning over 2,000 – and says using sat navs is ‘cheating’. Nigel Brown, 70, fell in love with paper maps at the age of 10, while searching for an ...

History and geography lovers rejoice! You can now see and even download incredible maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection database. The website contains more than ...

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John E. Feathers, right, who died in February, left behind a vast map collection that will be donated to the Los Angeles Public Library. Here, he is shown with his father, John Feathers, left, and his ...

The below map and this week’s back story have a personal meaning to me as they explain further the power of the gift of thousands of maps and street guides, all of which were the recent subject of a ...