Finland:Espoo
 Espoo, Finland
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| Latitude : 60.2, Longitude : 24.7 |
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Espoo is a city in Finland at latitude 60.2, longitude 24.7.
Espoo is the second largest city in Finland with a population of about 240 000. Espoo is situated on the coast of Gulf of Finland, just west of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The very small city of Kauniainen is inside of Espoo.
Most of the urban suburbs in Espoo are along the trunk roads Länsiväylä and Kehä 1 and the railroad. Other parts of the city have an abundance of detached houses, much more so than in the other cities of the capital region. Northern Espoo is mostly forest and a nature reserve of Nuuksio in the northwest.
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Roads
Trunk roads/Väylät and Ring roads/Kehätiet
Complete.
Other main roads/Pääkadut
Seem complete and many of them have enough traces for accurate positioning, yet many don't. Classification could be thought of and some of the streets now tagged as secondary might better be tertiary, or even primary streets.
Residential and other streets
In the urban areas of eastern and southern Espoo these are mostly in place, but largely missing in the areas of smaller houses. Road names in Swedish are mostly missing, yet requested for in WikiProject Finland editing notes. Older anonymous mappings done with Potlatch need partial verification: some unconnected ways exist, some barriers haven't been mapped and several one way streets are not marked as such. One way streets are much less common than in Helsinki.
More than an exact measure of completeness, the values below are for guiding the mapping efforts of areas relative to others nearby. Even if the streets have been drawn, at present time most don't have any gps traces and can have up to 30 meters offset.
Some approximations of the coverage status for various areas, based on random sampling (the names are used here in a broader meaning than on the map, unless stated otherwise):
| Area | Roads | cycleway/etc | Street names:fi | Names:sv | House numbers | Comment |
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| Laurinlahti (exact area) | 100% | 95% | 100% | ~0% | 0% | |
| Otaniemi (exact) | 100% | 99% | 100% | ~0% | 60% | |
| Westend (exact) | 100% | 99% | 100% | 0% | 15% | |
| Haukilahti | 100% | 95% | 100% | 10% | 2% | |
| Matinkylä | 100%? | 90% | 100% | 5% | 5% | |
| Tapiola | 99% | 80% | 99% | 70% | 30% | Itä-Tapiola nearly complete |
| Niittykumpu | 95% | 50% | 95% | 10% | 5% | |
| Soukka | 75% | 5% | 75% | ~0% | 1% | |
| Suvisaaristo | 1% | 0% | 1% | ~0% | 0% | |
| Olari - Nöykkiö | 75% | 15% | 80% | ~0% | 2% | |
| Mankkaa - Laajalahti | 95% | 15% | 0% | ~0% | 1% | |
| Kivenlahti - Latokaski | 90% | 1% | 90% | ~0% | 0% | Kivenlahti is likely no longer missing |
| Kauklahti | 95% | 1% | 95% | ~0% | ~0% | |
| Espoon keskus - Ymmersta | 95% | 15% | 95% | ~1% | ||
| Kilo - Leppävaara - Mäkkylä | 99% | 30% | 99% | 10% | ~0% | |
| Lintuvaara - Laaksolahti | 90% | 15% | 90% | ~0% | ~0% | |
| Bemböle - Järvenperä - Vanhakartano | 90% | 10% | 90% | ~0% | 0% | |
| Oittaa - Nuuksio | 75% | 5% | 75% | ~0% | 0% | small roads in the forests can't be seen in the aerial images |
| Takkula - Luukki - Juvanmalmi | 75% | 5% | 75% | ~0% | 0% | small roads in the forests can't be seen in the aerial images. |
Feel free to update any progress you have made and mark percentages for verified areas in bold.
Other map features
More than an exact measure of completeness, these values are for guiding the mapping efforts of areas relative to others nearby.
| Area | other road features | parks and forests | landuse | POI | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurinlahti (exact area) | 90% | 95% | 95% | ~10% | |
| Otaniemi (exact) | 80% | 80% | 20% | 40% | |
| Westend (exact) | 80% | 95% | 99% | 40% | |
| Haukilahti | 40% | 95% | 95% | 40% | |
| Matinkylä | 20% | 5% | 5% | 40% | |
| Tapiola | 40% | 80% | 50% | 15% | Itä-Tapiola quite finished. |
| Niittykumpu | 20% | 35% | 5% | 5% | |
| Soukka | 30% | 10% | 5% | 5% | |
| Suvisaaristo | 0% | 0% | 0% | ~0% | |
| Olari - Nöykkiö | 10% | 15% | 50% | 25% | |
| Mankkaa - Laajalahti | 10% | 5% | 0% | 5% | |
| Kivenlahti - Latokaski | 10% | 5% | 5% | 5% | |
| Kauklahti | 5% | 0% | 0% | ~5 | |
| Espoon keskus - Ymmersta | 10% | 5% | 5% | ~0% | |
| Kilo - Leppävaara - Mäkkylä | 15% | 60% | 20% | 25% | |
| Lintuvaara - Laaksolahti | 10% | 20% | 1% | 5% | |
| Bemböle - Järvenperä - Vanhakartano | 5% | 0% | 90% | ~0% | Lots of farm fields here. |
| Oittaa - Nuuksio | 3% | 2% | 2% | 5% | Lots of forest and fields here. |
| Takkula - Luukki - Juvanmalmi | 5% | 0% | 1% | 5% | Lots of forest and fields here. |
In the table above, other road features include: speed limits, number of lanes, access and turning restrictions, traffic signals etc.
Yahoo imagery
Just as in Helsinki, the coverage is good but for the most part many, even 6 years old, for example the Iso Omena shopping center is under construction in the images. Also, many residential areas can be hard to map because of the trees hanging over the streets.
Beware that distortions are common: many straight streets and buildings look curved. Images were also taken at an angle so the building's roofs are not in the same place as their foundations. This has to be considered if tracing building outlines from the images.
