[Commons-l] Response from the USGS image purchaser

Wed Aug 30 16:01:58 UTC 2006

>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Hey Judson,
>
>Having them hosted on the commons had occurred to me as well.  They
>are raw tiff's, still with the map border, etc.  So it might be
>advantageous to make them easier to handle by a average wikipedia
>viewers.
>
>They are also about 300 GB in total.  So if you think it makes sense
>for the commons to host them, I can arrange to mail a hard drive with
>the data.
>
>Thanks,
>-jared

I emailed Jared (the person that bought the maps) just to say that
there was interest in uploading them to commons, and he offered to
mail a hard drive with all the images! I was thinking we would
probably just grab them from the Archive, but I thought I would let
everyone know of this offer in case anyone wanted to do it that way.

It is a lot of data, and in tiff format.