David Rumsey Map Collection

Re:David Rumsey Map Collection by suzzer99 on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:56PM (#36578713)

I helped program this site almost 20 years ago. It's fun stumbling across your old code still running online.

The idea was to license the LUNA software to other image collections. I think NASA used it for a bit but that was about it. The problem was it was barely customizable (only color scheme, fonts) and no one had the stomach for how much more work (an order of magnitude at least) it was going to take to make it reasonably customizable for the different layouts/flows/features customers would want.

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Re:David Rumsey Map Collection by benbreen on Monday July 03, 2023 @06:25PM (#36579618)

That’s cool, thanks for your work with this. I’m a regular user.

Was going to say that the John Carter Brown Library (leading research library for rare books, maps, and manuscripts about colonial Americas) uses Luna - they did last time I checked, but seemingly it changed? At any rate it worked well for the past decade or so: https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet

Edit - looks like I got this mixed up with Luna Imaging which I assume is different

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Re:David Rumsey Map Collection by suzzer99 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:14AM (#36582169)

It's the same. Good to see they were able to license it to someone else. Maybe there are more out there. Crazy that both of them still have /servlet in the URL.

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