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Tonytulk

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May 15, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/15/99
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Does anyone know of a source of world. US and Aus. maps free of copyright that
I could use on a projected genealogy website
TIA Regards Tony Tulk

Joe Bananas

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May 15, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/15/99
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On 15 May 1999 08:08:00 GMT, tony...@aol.com (Tonytulk) wrote:

>Does anyone know of a source of world. US and Aus. maps free of copyright that
>I could use on a projected genealogy website
>

http://mapping.usgs.gov/

Unlike British Ordnance Survey maps, USGS-authored or produced data
and information are in the public domain. Incredible, but true. Don't
know that they'd have much on Aus. though. (Australia? Austria?)
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Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

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May 16, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/16/99
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In article <373e5bed...@enews.newsguy.com>, Joe Bananas
<joeba...@hotmail.com> writes

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>Unlike British Ordnance Survey maps, USGS-authored or produced data
>and information are in the public domain. Incredible, but true. Don't
>know that they'd have much on Aus. though. (Australia? Austria?)

Not all British OS maps are still subject to copyright. All of the 19th
century ones can be freely reproduced, and these are likely to be the
ones of greatest interest to genealogists.

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Mark Topham

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May 18, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/18/99
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Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <Bar...@tdrake.demon.co.uk> wrote in a message

> Not all British OS maps are still subject to copyright. All of the 19th
> century ones can be freely reproduced, and these are likely to be the
> ones of greatest interest to genealogists.

Turn of the century maps at two pounds or so each at:-
www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk

Mark


R R M Tweek

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May 18, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/18/99
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Tonytulk <tony...@aol.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a source of world. US and Aus. maps free of copyright that
>I could use on a projected genealogy website

Don't quote me on the copyright-free portion, but I believe that in many
cases, the copyright has expired on them... Look at http://memory.loc.gov/
[click search, then maps, then search for your city/locale] where there are
many interesting bird's eye view maps of major US cities, many from before
1900.

Some may be accurate, others using articstic license, and yet others
completely in error. I'm thinking of two different 1869 bird's eye
maps of Michigan City, IN, both by the same publisher, and both very
completely different. (One, although not labeled as such, might be
an earlier version placed in the same publication to show the changes?)

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Tonytulk

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May 26, 1999, 3:00:00 AM5/26/99
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Many thanks Joe Bananas and others. Pity UK gov. doesn't do the same.
Still looking for World and Australia.
Regards Tony Tulk

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