[OSM-talk] Copyright and old maps

[Michael Collinson]

An excellent find!

Yes, they are perfect for OSM use.
I double checked a few of the maps and see the are prepared and 
published by, and only by, the Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers. 
U.S. Army.  I have friends who regularly use US military film footage 
so can confirm there is good precedent.  The US government has this 
peculiar notion :-) that was paid for by the public, belongs to the 
public. Would that other governments would follow.

Mike
Stockholm


At 04:02 AM 1/28/2008, maning sambale wrote:
>hi,
>
>Just to double check if this is OK.  I found a collection of  topo
>maps (1:250,000) of the Philippines from Uni of Texas' Library
>[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/philippines/]. As far as I
>understand, these are in the public domain
>[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/faq.html#3.html]
>
>Ergo, I can use it for seeding some roads?
>
>cheers,
>
>maning
>
>On Jan 27, 2008 8:30 AM, Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:03:40PM +0000, Gregory wrote:
> >
> > > I was wondering about going to the local records office to look 
> at old maps.
> > > Maybe use some to speed up an initial set of data for OSM (and building
> > > outlines which I can't get), and maybe just use some for 
> interest to use on
> > > my website etc.
> >
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/New_Popular_Edition
> > might be of interest, if you don't already know about it.
> >
> > Dominic.
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