[ crossposting on wikien-l and commons-l ]<br><br>On 8/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">cohesion</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:cohesion@sleepyhead.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cohesion@sleepyhead.org
</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jared Benedict bought all of the USGS maps for $1600 and then had a<br>fund raiser to recoup the money. That has been done and now they are<br>being uploaded to the Internet Archive. Project info is here<br><a href="http://ransom.redjar.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">

http://ransom.redjar.org/</a><br><br>Just letting people know, I'm sure there are a lot of cartographers<br>eager to get these into wikipedia :D<br><br>Judson<br></blockquote></div><br>Is there any project on Commons to upload these maps?
<br><br>g.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Guillaume Paumier
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