[OHM] Query regarding adaptation and use of OHM map please

Spencer Graves spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org
Wed Jan 18 06:03:57 UTC 2023



On 1/17/23 9:17 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 1/17/23 9:27 PM, Susan Broomhall via Historic wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm publishing an academic book and was wondering if I am able to 
>> adapt a map that I found on the OHM website and use in an academic 
>> publication.
>>
>> The map is an outline map of East Asia, covering China, Korea, Japan, 
>> Macao and Philippines, which I adapted by removing some border 
>> markings not relevant to the period of my book and labels in local 
>> languages, in order to replace them with English city labels relevant 
>> to my book's study.
>>
>> The book is to be published Open Access by the ARC Humanities Press, a 
>> commercial press.
>>
>> Would this be an acceptable use of your map? I am of course happy to 
>> indicate credit for the website and/or original mapmaker  - as you 
>> deem appropriate.
> 
> i think our requirement is simply attribution to OpenHistoricalMap 
> Contributors.


Can you please provide an example citation?  Thanks, Spencer Graves

> 
> richard



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