[Osmf-talk] Secret USSR cold war maps

[Simon Poole]

Martin didn't mention the outcome of the discussions: there is no
indication that they are out of copyright at least not just from an age
point of view, at the time it was a bit unclear who the copyright holder
was, but I wouldn't assume that there is none (naturally that doesn't
stop entrepreneurs from still selling them etc. particularly when they
are located in the US).

Simon

Am 19.07.2015 um 17:25 schrieb Andy Mabbett:
> On 19 July 2015 at 13:00, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> To derive information for today's OSM the problem is that they are really old now (e.g. 1989 is 26 years from today)
> 
> That's not necessarily a problem - many features do not change, We've
> used out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey maps for this purpose for years.
> 
> 
> Another thought occurs to me: we should invite one of the guys dealing
> with these maps to speak at a SoTM.
> 

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