One of my personal favorites inwards this information visualization collection is Levi W. Yaggy's Geographical Definitions Illustrated. This vividly colorful educational nautical chart was designed to endure displayed inwards a classroom. The nautical chart depicts examples of a broad attain of geographical features, such as deltas, estuaries in addition to harbors.
Charles Minard was a pioneer of the role of graphics inwards technology scientific discipline in addition to statistics. His virtually famous visualization was his flow-map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign. Minard's flow-map of Napoleon's 1812 Russian crusade isn't inwards the David Rumsey collection but the collection does convey Minard flow-maps showing global emigration inwards 1858, the Atlantic merchandise inwards wool in addition to cotton in addition to the movements of mineral fuels on railways in addition to waterways.
In each of these maps scaled arrows are used to demo the direction in addition to scale of the motility of goods and/or people.
John B. Sparks' Histomap of Evolution is a logarithmic timeline which visualizes x one 1000 meg years of evolution. The nautical chart was an accompaniment to John B. Sparks as ambitious Histomap, which condensed 4000 years of human action into 1 chart. The Histomap was five feet long in addition to was sold inwards 1931, past times Rand McNally, for $1.
This history of the the world starts at the tumble out of the Histomap inwards 2000 BC in addition to progresses frontward inwards fourth dimension as yous locomote downward the chart. The width of the diverse 'states, nations in addition to empires' equates to their 'relative power' through history.
These are only a few examples which I establish piece browsing the David Rumsey Collection. If yous are interested inwards information visualizations, information graphics or blueprint in addition to then yous volition relish browsing the 'data visualization' dependent area plain for yourself. I haven't fifty-fifty got to a greater extent than or less to discussing Henry Beck's early on London Underground maps or Charles Booth's map of London poverty.
You mightiness convey noticed that all of these examples from the David Rumsey Collection are displayed using the LUNA viewer. In other words IIIF has been used to display each of these information visualizations. This agency that yous tin display whatever of these visualizations yourself inwards a Leaflet map using the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in. If yous are interested inwards mapping whatever of these examples alongside Leaflet in addition to then yous bespeak to click on the 'share' link on its visualization page on the David Rumsey Collection. You tin in addition to then click on the IIIF link to catch the URL for the IIIF manifest.
