[OSM-legal-talk] OS map copyright expiry dates, FOI request

[Peter Miller]

On 21 Sep 2009, at 10:30, Ed Avis wrote:

> Good work!  This must mean that if we see Ordnance Survey maps in  
> secondhand
> shops with a copyright date of 1958 or earlier, we should buy them  
> and start
> scanning them in.
>
> (I know about the npemaps site; is there some other collection of  
> out-of-
> copyright maps to contribute to?)

Warper is pretty neat. Check it out here:
http://warper.geothings.net/layers

There is a lot of discussion on talk-gb about all this at present -  
focusing in particular on aerial photography but I believe that Warper  
was originally set up for old maps (discussion titled openstreetmap's  
first flight and 'Verticality metre, was: Re: OpenStreetMap's first  
flight!').
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2009-September/thread.html

Fyi, Steve Chiltern already has a complete set of very clean Series 7  
OS inch/mile maps published in the late1950's that have lived in  
vertical hangers in a university all their lives (so there are no  
creases etc). He is starting to digitise them as they come out of  
copyright over the period End 2008 to end 2010.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/7th_Series

Regards,


Peter
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