[Openstreetmap] Soviet maps of the West

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>:

> Thinking about it, I can't imagine the Russians would have had any
> qualms about using OS maps as the basis for their maps.  They didn't
> worry about copyright.  So they probably are derived from such sources.

Do read John Davies' article in the URL cited (which was also previously posted
to the ordnance-maps list). He puts together some reasonably convincing
arguments that they _weren't_ copied from OS maps.

Richard

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