United States of America (Raster Image)

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Abstract
This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of the United States. The original map was published in 'A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Atlas; Being a General Guide to History, Both Ancient and Modern...' published by M. Carey in 1820. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced by the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford University. This map is part of a selection of georeferenced historic maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University.
Purpose
This layer provides an historical perspective of the cultural and physical landscape during this time period. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography. As this map has been georeferenced, it also can be used as a background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.

Description

Type of resource cartographic, software, multimedia
Form GeoTIFF
Place Stanford, California, US
Publisher Stanford Digital Repository
Publication date 2015
Language English
Digital origin born digital
Map data Scale not given. ; W 115°45ʹ38ʺ--W 59°13ʹ/N 53°34ʹ46ʺ--N 19°38ʹ22ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creators/Contributors

Creator Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis

Subjects

Subject Historical geography
Subject Rivers
Subject Cities and towns
Subject Lakes
Subject United States
Subject 1820
Subject Imagery and Base Maps
Genre Geospatial data
Genre Cartographic dataset

Bibliographic information

Attribute accuracy report The horizontal positional accuracy of a raster image is approximately the same as the accuracy of the published source map. The lack of a greater accuracy is largely the result of the inaccuracies with the original measurements and possible distortions in the original paper map document. There may also be errors introduced during the digitizing and georeferencing process. In most cases, however, errors in the raster image are small compared with sources of error in the original map graphic. The RMS error for this map is 221.645 meters. This value describes how consistent the transformation is between the different control points (links). The RMS error is only an assessment of the accuracy of the transformation.
Supplemental information The David Rumsey Map Collection contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1700 to 1950s. More information: https://purl.stanford.edu/xh235dd9059.
Referenced by
Title
David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University Libraries
Imprint
2013
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/ks071qy6130

Access conditions

Use and reproduction
Image from the David Rumsey Map Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce commercially, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
Copyright
Property rights reside with the repository, Copyright © Stanford University. Images may be reproduced or transmitted, but not for commercial use. For commercial use or commercial republication, contact rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. By downloading any images from this site, you agree to the terms of that license.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-SA).

Preferred citation

Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University. (2013). United States of America (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/ks071qy6130.

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