It makes no difference how you used them!!! They are not good for osm! K.
2010/6/24 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > I would like to say this, those maps are not very detailed, and really, have > been used for very rough corrections, and adding in some streams or placing > cities. > > mike > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Have you really officially purchased them from Russian government, its >>> military divisions or perhaps from Roskartografiya? >>> >>> 2010/6/24 [email protected] <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Kirill Bestoujev <[email protected]> >>>> 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/[email protected]/msg27951.html >>>> mike >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> talk mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Eugene Iline >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> James Michael DuPont >> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org >> flossal.org > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org > flossal.org > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
