Did they show you any documents confirming that that do really have ANY rights to sell those maps? I\m sure they did not...
K. 2010/6/24 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com>: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk