[Openstreetmap] London locations

[Richard Fairhurst]

On 10 Oct 2005, at 18:50, Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> While we're on out-of-copyright maps, am I safe copying stuff from a 
> 1945
> OS map?  (I have a 1945 map of the Southampton area) Could I put data
> copied from a 1945 OS map (e.g. names of features in the New Forest) 
> under
> a Creative Commons licence? Just want to double-check it; I believe 
> it's 50
> years (i.e 1945 is easily safe...)

Yes, that's absolutely fine.

I'll be releasing my New Popular Edition scans (i.e. 1in maps from the 
1940s/early 1950s for the whole of England and Wales) under a CC 
licence [1] imminently, so you can do this for the world outside 
Southampton too. :)

Richard

[1] CC licence for the actual scans, but no restrictions at all on 
derived vector works.