<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Dag Bjerkeli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dag@jodalin.org">dag@jodalin.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I had a quick look at the data for Bjørnøya, south of Svalbard. Most of<br>
the names there were placed in a clear grid.<br>
With the disclaimer of not knowing the locality of Bjørnøya well, this<br>
did not look correct.</blockquote><div><br>I am also wondering where these names come from. The Norwegian Polar Institute have some maps available online. See for instance <a href="http://www.miljo.npolar.no/temakart/images/maps/Bjornoya_50.jpg">http://www.miljo.npolar.no/temakart/images/maps/Bjornoya_50.jpg</a><br>
<br>I have, of course, never been to Bjørnøya, but judging from the map, I am a bit surprised that we know have around 15 named islands around there. What is now named, seems more like rocks than islands, and most of them are inland... Add to that the names are imported as being in "Svalbard", which is positively false.<br>
<br>On the maps and databases published by The Norwegian Polar Institute, I have found no copyright information. Most of the data also seems to be avaialable in a number of formats. Does this indicvate, that we here have something as rare as a Norwegian Public Domain datasource?<br>
<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Gustav<br></div></div><br></div>