[OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

We purchased them from this site :
http://mapstor.com/

Here the same data is available from a usaid sponsored project :
http://www.bunkertrails.org/maps.php


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Eugene Iline <evgeniy at ily.in> wrote:

> Have you really officially purchased them from Russian government, its
> military divisions or perhaps from Roskartografiya?
>
> 2010/6/24 jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Kirill Bestoujev <bestoujev at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> No, they are not out of copyright. All the rights of USSR were
>>> transfered to Russian Federation. Neither USSR, nor Russian Federation
>>> ever transferred those maps to public domain or in any other way
>>> allowed free use of them. Most of that maps were stolen from exUSSR
>>> military bases in republics, which separated from USSR in 90-s.
>>>
>>> In Russia disclosing of such maps (not 100k, they were openly
>>> publiched, but 50k) is still a crime - treason. There was such a case
>>> a month ago.
>>>
>>> SO: old USSR military maps are not allowed to be used in OSM.
>>>
>>
>> Oh really?
>> I read that they were sold.
>> We had purchased them and were using them, also for osm.
>> The consensus was that they are public domain.
>> lets straighten this out.
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg27951.html
>> mike
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