[Xastir] USGS DRG files no longer free..

[Alan Crosswell]

You should be able to get to this government data at a local US 
despository library.  These are usually at research university libraries 
and are open to the public.  I know my university runs one and I've used 
it as a "civilian" just so they could record the usage stats that way to 
  go in and copy Tiger/line data.
/a

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Tyler Allison wrote:
> 
> 
>>It just torks me that several months ago it was free and now I have to pay
>>$75 a pop)
> 
> 
> I don't like it when free map sources dry up either.  FWIW:  I have
> all of the CD's for WA, several for OR, and one or two for ID/MT.  I
> could be persuaded to put them up on a server somewhere.  That'd
> take care of perhaps 1.5 states worth or so.  It'd take a while to
> get them there though, as it's a lot of CD's.  It'd be best for
> someone with access to the CD's to put them directly onto the
> server.
> 
> This might be a good application for one of those distributed
> internet applications that can pull files from whoever has them.
> You know, the ones that people use for sharing MP3's and software.
> This could be a _good_ use for those sorts of apps.
>