On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >> just checked one of these maps. and interestingly it contains data which is >> most likely copied from official maps which are not in PD.
Well that was the issue with OS, the ordinance survery in UK, the said that the russian maps stole the information from them. see this : http://images.jomidav.com/sovietmaps/OSstatement.pdf more info: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cartography/sovietmaps/info.html http://sovietmaps.com/history mike _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
