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 2010/6/24 Igor Brejc <igor.br...@gmail.com>: > Interesting. A while I ago I did some work on generating relief contours > from Viewfinder's DEM data, basis of which are old Soviet military maps: > http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/viewfinders-dem-data-comparison-with-srtm > > Someone then warned me that "some of the Viewfinder data stems from Soviet > military topos, these a copyrighted by Roscartographia, still. No > reproduction, no selling etc. We’re not using these data for open projects, > it is avoided for OSM etc…" (see the discussion in the comments). > > I'd be interested to know what is the real truth: public domain or > Roscartographia? > > Igor > > 2010/6/23 Frédéric Bonifas <fredericboni...@gmail.com> >> >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
