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Ideally you take a picture of an emergency evacuation plan, use a scanner app to remove the distortion, and then put it as background in JOSM to trace the layout
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Don't copy from maps you don't have permission to use.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright#Proprietary_data
I don't think they are copyrighted? They are made according to ISO23601
This is actually a really interesting case. On one hand, there is typically a specialized company involved creating those maps. On the other hand, the mall which requested them is, by law, required to create them and to put them at visible places in the mall (thus "publishing" them). According to the European Database Law, they would thus not be eligible for copyright and should be considered public domain!
However, I wouldn't build a multi-million company on it...