[OSM-talk] Soviet military maps copyright status

[Kristian Thy]

On Tue, Jan 16, Kristian Thy wrote:
> I've been looking at georeferencing some of the Soviet military maps
> floating around on the 'net (mostly from poehali.org), sticking them
> into a WMS and, through the wonder that is standardized
> interoperability, loading them into JOSM and digitizing the major road
> networks, placenames and so on.

Forgot to add that due to the Ordnance Survey's allegations that the
Soviet mapping for the UK infringes on their copyrighted material, I
would only use the maps for the areas in which I am fairly certain no
IP theft has occurred - namely the former USSR and the Eastern Bloc.

\\kristian
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