[Stinger]

Although the maps are very beautiful, there is concern that it is from a derived work and therefore under copyright law.

Are you referring to the 'samples' I had in my posts? or the actual maps themselves?
If you're talking about the images in this post, the first was resized to a much lower quality than the original, and the second was a tiny portion of the original clipped for review purposes. I'm no expert in copyright law, and I know fair dealing provisions are a mess, that vary by Country, but I thought both my images would have fallen under that usage.

I understand your concerns however, and without consulting a friggen lawyer, I can't be certain of my above claim :/ Just a testament to the sad state of copyright laws eh?

Also, if the first point did not hold true, the maps are still too large for MobileRead.

For future reference, how small should I scale images when attaching them to MR posts?