On 8/29/06, cohesion <cohesion(a)sleepyhead.org> wrote:
Jared Benedict bought all of the USGS maps for $1600
and then had a
fund raiser to recoup the money. That has been done and now they are
being uploaded to the Internet Archive. Project info is here
http://ransom.redjar.org/
Just letting people know, I'm sure there are a lot of cartographers
eager to get these into wikipedia :D
Judson
That's pretty neat. I wish it had been mentioned here or on Reddit - I
may not be a big user of maps, but their value for Wikipedia is
obvious enough I'd've donated.
~maru