[OSM-talk] Copyright and old maps

[Maning Sambale]

Any easy way to load this in JOSM?  

I have rectified some of these maps.
I can set-up a local wms on my machine.
Next step would be to load it in JOSM.

cheers,

maning


On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:02 +0100, Michael Collinson wrote:
> 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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