[Osmf-talk] Secret USSR cold war maps

Rich richlv at nakts.net
Sun Jul 19 17:14:08 UTC 2015


On 19/07/15 19:08, Simon Poole wrote:
> 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).

there are rumours that a certain mapping company in one of the countries
mentioned in the article was bootstrapped by lifting most of the
information from the previously secret military maps. back in the early
nineties, "copyright" was not a word around here :)

overall, between the age of those maps and the tiny copyright issue, i'd
probably suggest not to invest any time into tracing or lifting features
from them. if you do it on a personal level and on a small scale, i
doubt anybody will suspect/catch you, though. just sayin' :)

> 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.
-- 
 Rich




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