In addition, the software company's copyright arguably no longer applies, as you have made sufficient modifications to the map to qualify as an original work. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:04 PM, eshown <eshown@comcast.net> wrote: > Greg wrote: > > I am working on the NGS Home Study Course and am using AniMap from Gold > Bug Software to produce county maps for several states at different time > points for the migraton study required in Lesson 11 of the course. I am at > a loss as to what citation format to use. As an example, I am using the > software to produce a map of counties in South Carolina in 1800. I am > exporting that map to a gif file which I am then opening in Photoshop to > edit, removing text I do not want and shading the county of interest. > While > the original map is produced by the software, the final has been edited by > me. How do I cite this map? BTW, I have written the author of the > software > and obtained his permission to use the maps. > >Any assistance would be appreciated. > > > Greg, if you had made a notes from a publication and, for some reason, you > wanted to cite your own notes? Would you identify whether you had used a > pen, a pencil, or a keyboard to create those notes? No. You would simply > cite your notes and identify the publication from which the notes were > made. > > The same principle would apply to your adaptation of a published map. > Elizabeth > > ------------------------------------------------- > Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG > www.HistoricPathways.com <http://www.historicpathways.com/> > www.EvidenceExplained.com <http://www.evidenceexplained.com/> > www.Facebook.com/EvidenceExplained<http://www.facebook.com/EvidenceExplained> > > > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive > environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to > professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I'd be leary of that -- this could well qualify as a derivative work, the rights to which are held by the copyright holder. Dave Liesse On 10/4/2012 05:45, Charles Fleming wrote: > In addition, the software company's copyright arguably no longer applies, > as you have made sufficient modifications to the map to qualify as an > original work. > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:04 PM, eshown <eshown@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Greg wrote: >>> I am working on the NGS Home Study Course and am using AniMap from Gold >> Bug Software to produce county maps for several states at different time >> points for the migraton study required in Lesson 11 of the course. I am at >> a loss as to what citation format to use. As an example, I am using the >> software to produce a map of counties in South Carolina in 1800. I am >> exporting that map to a gif file which I am then opening in Photoshop to >> edit, removing text I do not want and shading the county of interest. >> While >> the original map is produced by the software, the final has been edited by >> me. How do I cite this map? BTW, I have written the author of the >> software >> and obtained his permission to use the maps. >>> Any assistance would be appreciated. >> >> Greg, if you had made a notes from a publication and, for some reason, you >> wanted to cite your own notes? Would you identify whether you had used a >> pen, a pencil, or a keyboard to create those notes? No. You would simply >> cite your notes and identify the publication from which the notes were >> made. >> >> The same principle would apply to your adaptation of a published map. >> Elizabeth >> >> ------------------------------------------------- >> Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG >> www.HistoricPathways.com <http://www.historicpathways.com/> >> www.EvidenceExplained.com <http://www.evidenceexplained.com/> >> www.Facebook.com/EvidenceExplained<http://www.facebook.com/EvidenceExplained> >> >> >> The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive >> environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to >> professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I don't find this is an issue of "copyright" as much as "validating data." Your data are only as good as the maps from which you work. In years past I've done the same thing -- using the outlines as identified by AniMap at various times, superimposed them on modern topo-maps (US National Maps -- no copyright issue there), and entered plats based on descriptions rendered in DeedMapper 4.1. I've more recently done similar things with http://randymajors.com/p/maps.html . I think it is important to tell the reader which of these historic maps are used for my positions about, for example, the location of a particular plat at a particular time. Some of my "plats of interest" straddle current county lines in Virginia, making this an important issue. The advantage of Randy Majors, of course, is that his are already superimposed on modern maps (not available years ago when I first did this), and I note that Majors cites The _Atlas of Historical County Boundaries_ (http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/project.html ) as his source. I just checked and find that the origin of the data for AniMap is not clear. So, when using any of these "new" images from PhotoShopped maps, I would cite several sources - one for the original county outline map, probably one for the underlying topo map, if used, and one for the plat descriptions. I think my use of DeedMapper is not necessary for a citation -- anymore than a compass and protractor would be if I chose to be "old school" with this. Question would be -- that's a lot of citing for one drawing, how to do this so as to "not" confuse the reader? Pat Dunford Tucson, Arizona -----Original Message----- From: transitional-genealogists-forum-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:transitional-genealogists-forum-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Charles Fleming Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 5:45 AM To: TGF Mailing List Subject: Re: [TGF] How to cite: AniMap maps In addition, the software company's copyright arguably no longer applies, as you have made sufficient modifications to the map to qualify as an original work.