[Talk-is] Geographic Names of Iceland's Glaciers in the OpenStreetMap.org database

[Daníel Gunnarsson]

I'm contacting you on behalf of the Icelandic OpenStreetMap community.

We would like to get permission to use some data found in the text of
the report: Geographic Names of Iceland's Glaciers: Historic and
Modern.
To my knowledge the text is public domain but int the cover of the
book is a clause saying that we must be granted permission before
using any copyrighted material from the copyright owner.

Can you clarify which parts of the work are in the public domain?
We're interested in sourcing the geodata found in the report. Both the
names of natural features as well as their coordinates.

So my question to you is: which of the material found in the report is
copyrighted and which is not?

The data we are interested in the most are the names and coordinates
of the glaciers, mostly smaller sub-glaciers whose names are not of
common knowledge of most Icelanders.

If you are not familiar with OpenSteetMap. OSM is a collaborative
project to create a free map of the world.
Here is the map of Iceland:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=64.98&lon=-18.38&zoom=7&layers=B000FTF
The data is available under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Best regards
Daníel Gunnarsson