[WikiEN-l] USGS maps are liberated!

[maru dubshinki]

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

That's pretty neat. I wish it had been mentioned here or on Reddit - I
may not be a big user of maps, but their value for Wikipedia is
obvious enough I'd've donated.

~maru