[OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

[Igor Brejc]

Interesting. A while I ago I did some work on generating relief contours
from Viewfinder's DEM data, basis of which are old Soviet military maps:
http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/viewfinders-dem-data-comparison-with-srtm

Someone then warned me that "some of the Viewfinder data stems from Soviet
military topos, these a copyrighted by Roscartographia, still. No
reproduction, no selling etc. We’re not using these data for open projects,
it is avoided for OSM etc…" (see the discussion in the comments).

I'd be interested to know what is the real truth: public domain or
Roscartographia?

Igor

2010/6/23 Frédéric Bonifas <fredericbonifas at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> Looking for data sources on Kyrgyzstan, I came across soviet military
> topographic maps. This is for Osh for example :
> http://en.poehali.org/maps/100k--k43-122.html
>
> According to Wikipedia, it is in the Public domain :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps/Source_materials
>
> The goal would be to trace over these maps in Openstreetmap.
>
> Could someone confirm me that these Soviet military topographic maps
> are in the PD ?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Frédéric
>
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