Comments on: High Resolution Historical OS Maps now in OSM

By: TimSC

TimSC — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:56:01 +0000

Hey, cool blog post on the 7th series! More sheets coming soon…

TimSC
(the code monkey behind it!)

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Yep Sport » Blog Archive » Static Street-O Routemaps with OSM — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:17:21 +0000

[...] I’ve hacked the plugin to pull in map images from the new OOC OSM server of historic Ordnance Survey [...]

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:19:11 +0000

It does apply to all historical OS mapping – it is the “Crown Copyright” rule and doesn’t apply to maps produced by private companies. The 50 year timing runs from the end of the year of the publication date printed on the map – any subsequent reprint date that also appears on it can be ignored. This technicality was established via a F.O.I. request: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:TimSC/CopyrightFOI

Separately, copyright exists on the scanned images of the maps (as opposed to the maps themselves) which is why we cannot use other historical collections of OS maps, e.g. the National Library of Scotland set.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:32:52 +0000

I was wondering why the 50 year rule does not apply to all historical OS mapping? Is this a rule specific to this series?

Thanks

Dan

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