Ok so it has to be removed from the "Out-of-copyright maps" page of the wiki right ?
Frédéric Le 23 juin 2010 22:12, Kirill Bestoujev <bestou...@gmail.com> a écrit : > 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. > > Kirill > > 2010/6/23 Frédéric Bonifas <fredericboni...@gmail.com>: >> Replying to myself, these maps are out of copyright according to our wiki : >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Out-of-copyright_maps#Old_maps_found_elsewhere_on_the_web >> >> Frédéric >> >> Le 23 juin 2010 21:47, Frédéric Bonifas <fredericboni...@gmail.com> a écrit : >>> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
