When you visit the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University's Green Library, if you can, take the stairs. Yes, you'll have to spiral up three flights, but the wallpaper will give you plenty of ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Data-Smart City Solutions. The Vision Zero initiative began in Sweden in 1997 with the goal of eliminating fatal traffic and pedestrian accidents, and has since ...

Look But Don’t Touch involves both an extensive online exhibition, and a display at the Map Collection in Harvard University’s Pusey Library. David Weimer, librarian for cartographic collections and ...

Stanford, Calif. — The new David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University feels like a secret clubhouse for map lovers. To get there, you pass through a nondescript door in the library and climb two ...

The collection of old documents offers a unique glimpse into how Maryland developed during the 1800s, thanks to atlases that were once sold door to door by canvassers. Among the images is a 1700s ...

Robert Berlo got hooked on maps at an early age. As a kid growing up in San Francisco he’d pore over roadmaps in the backseat of the car on family vacations. Sometime around age 11 he started ...

VAIL — Art in Public Places this week launched a fresh website for programs, events and the public art collection at http://www.artinvail.com. Mike Richards, the ...