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
This is awesome. I wonder how long it'll take before someone comes up
with a Wikimapia (
http://www.wikimapia.org/) that isn't "powered by
Google".
I just got my GPS a couple months ago and I'm already starting to get
back into the GIS thing. Rather detailed shapefiles for all of the US
are available for free at
http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/index.html. I
believe these are also exempt from copyright law as US government
works.
I believe all that's left stopping people from making a copyright-free
google maps would be the intersection/one-way street data. AFAIK the
only data that exists for that is proprietary. Maybe it's time to
push again for some sort of GIS-based Wikimedia project.
Anthony