On 8/29/06, cohesion cohesion@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
Since these are a work of the US Government, they are public domain, yes? In that case, fantastic!!!
--Oskar