[OSM-talk] Soviet military maps copyright status

[Barnett, Phillip]

I seem to recall reading a report (from the Charles Close Society?)
which concluded that those allegations were extremely dubious. Though
caution is probably the sensible approach since the OS has deep pockets.



 
 



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-----Original Message-----

From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Kristian Thy
Sent: 16 January 2007 13:25
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Soviet military maps copyright status

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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