On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Ivan Garcia<capisc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [...]I wonder if you could get those photos or even the maps via a FOIA
>> request?
>
> I doubt that data taken 30 years ago cannot be high quality, maybe the roads
> have a 10/-10 meters unaccuracy if they have been drawn from aerial photos
> and not GPSed.

That data is probably very acceptable for OSM use, and the military
probably took care to take good aerial photography.

> Even thought, I'm sure not so many vietnamese mappers would like to see in
> the Source tag that army that also used to bomb and kill many millions of
> their own people :-(

It would be unfortunate if mapping efforts were impeded due to this.

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