That the USGS is not claiming copyright is clear. My issue is that the maps themselves are obviously based on sources that were not produced by the USGS themselves (maps probably confiscated or otherwise obtained during WWII). The first one I looked at referenced an Hungarian map from 1940 (which potentially could be out of copyright but just as good could not be) just as an example.
Simon Am 15.01.2012 23:54, schrieb Janko Mihelić:
There is a statement here: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/faq.html#3.html And there is no special marking of copyright on those maps. Janko 2012/1/15 Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch <mailto:si...@poole.ch>> These maps seem to be derived from non-US sources (maps) that may actually still be copyrighted. Has there been any formal and official statements on the status? Simon Am 15.01.2012 23:26, schrieb hbogner: He forgot the translation :D New imagery Hi from croatia mappers! The U.S. Geological Survey has made public maps of the whole Ex Yugoslavia under the Public Domain license, which means we can use them in the Openstreetmap project. List of maps in pdf format here: https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/former_yugoslavia/ Unfortunately, not all maps are scanned, the yellow areas are available: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/former_yugoslavia/index_map.jpg Our member dodobas geocoded the maps and we put them on the server maintained by user hbogner on the Faculty of Geodesy in Zagreb. We are inviting you to use the imagery to fill the Openstreetmap with as much usefull data possible! I suggest you use the tag source=U.S. Defense Mapping Agency for the elements drawn over these backgrounds so we can easily find what is drawn with these maps. How to use them? In JOSM: Go to Edit > Preferences... > WMS TMS > + (Plus sign lower right) > TMS Menu name= USGS osm-hr TMS URL = http://tms.osm-hr.org/1.0.0/all_ustopo/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png <http://tms.osm-hr.org/1.0.0/all_ustopo/%7Bzoom%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png> Screenshot: http://osm-hr.org/josm.png In Potlatch: Go to Background > Edit... Make a new line: Name= USGS osm-hr URL= http://tms.osm-hr.org/1.0.0/all_ustopo/$z/$x/$y.png Screenshot: http://osm-hr.org/potlach.jpg If there are any problems, contact us! http://osm-hr.org/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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