[OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

[Apollinaris Schoell]

there is no mention of PD for these maps at mapstore.com. they are not even free of copyright from poehali.net
free download doesn't mean PD


Can I use the maps in my own project?
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On 24 Jun 2010, at 3:22 , jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:

> I am not saying that. I am saying that this is a topic for lawyers.
> from what I learned about the discussion on wikipedia datapoints, it is uk law that governs osm data.
> mike
> 
> 2010/6/24 Kirill Bestoujev <bestoujev at gmail.com>
> So you want to say that you do not care for those osm-users, which are
> in Russia and which may have problems using osm with copyright data in
> it? Did I get you right?
> 
> K.
> 
> 24 июня 2010 г. 13:56 пользователь jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> написал:
> > I think you should take this to the legal list.
> > As far as I know, the copyright laws of england count for osm, not those of
> > russia.
> > mike
> >
> > 2010/6/24 Alexandr Zeinalov <shurik at sbin.ru>
> >>
> >> > We purchased them from this site :
> >> > http://mapstor.com/
> >>
> >> AFAIK this is not legal seller of maps, and poehali.org too. They both
> >> hosted outside Russia. So this maps can't be reliable identified as public
> >> domain maps.
> >>
> >> > Here the same data is available from a usaid sponsored project :
> >> > http://www.bunkertrails.org/maps.php
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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