[OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
>> just checked one of these maps. and interestingly it contains data which is
>> most likely copied from official maps which are not in PD.

Well that was the issue with OS, the ordinance survery in UK, the said
that the russian maps stole the information from them.

see this :
http://images.jomidav.com/sovietmaps/OSstatement.pdf

more info:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cartography/sovietmaps/info.html

http://sovietmaps.com/history
mike