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 <evge...@ily.in> wrote: > Have you really officially purchased them from Russian government, its > military divisions or perhaps from Roskartografiya? > > 2010/6/24 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> > >> >> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Kirill Bestoujev <bestou...@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > > -- > Best regards, > Eugene Iline > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org
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