Re: [OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

2010-07-01 Thread Maxim Dubinin
you don't think that only Soviet did that, right? There is evidence, that GNS data (based on US military series) on at least part of territory of Russia was likewise borrowed from Soviet topomaps. No way they can systematically get names of specific geographic features otherwise. Everyone spied

Re: [OSM-talk] Russia becoming more open with mapping?

2010-06-25 Thread Maxim Dubinin
This is a good step forward, but please don't buy it that easily. Famous map collectioner (no economic profit whatsoever!) just sentenced for 4 years in jail. No fun. Right now we're in discussion another emerging investigation with a paraplanerist who is 'remote sensing' with his Canon. More