[OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

[Kirill Bestoujev]

It makes no difference how you used them!!! They are not good for osm!

K.

2010/6/24 jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>:
> I would like to say this, those maps are not very detailed, and really, have
> been used for very rough corrections, and adding in some streams or placing
> cities.
>
> mike
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>> Eugene Iline
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>> James Michael DuPont
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