[WikiEN-l] USGS maps are liberated!

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 8/29/06, cohesion <cohesion at 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