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Iceland, Europe

Latitude : 64.86, Longitude : -18.52

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Contents 1 Mailing list 2 Goals 2.1 Urban areas 2.1.1 Greater Reykjavík Area 2.1.1.1 Reykjavík 2.1.1.1.1 Streets 2.1.1.1.2 Landuse 2.1.2 Akranes 2.1.3 Akureyri 2.1.4 Seltjarnarnes 2.1.5 Selfoss 2.2 Highways 2.3 Pistes 2.3.1 Notes 3 Open Issues and TODO 4 Data sources 4.1 Free data sources 4.2 Data already available 4.3 Potential data sources 4.4 Contacted owners of data sources 5 Import work 5.1 Ongoing import work 5.2 Finished import work 6 People involved 7 See also

Mailing list

There a a mailing list (archives) for this project. It is the primary way of coordination for OSM mapping in Iceland, please join it if you're interested in the project.

Goals

This section tracks the progress of areas that are currently being mapped in Iceland, mostly divided by townships.

Urban areas

Greater Reykjavík Area

The Greater Reykjavík Area consists of 8 municipalities. Around 200,000 people live in the capital area, or around 65% of the population of Iceland [1].

Reykjavík

Streets

Being actively mapped, the road network east of Reykjanesbraut is considered complete. TODO:

• Seljahverfi - Looks complete
• Árbær - Trunk ways mostly complete, but some highway=residential need surveying
• Grafarvogur (Everything north of Vesturlandsvegur) - Trunk ways mostly complete, but some highway=residential need surveying
• Norðlingaholt - Pretty much unsurveyed
• Grafarholt - Looks complete
• Area west of Grafarholt - Needs surveying

• Heimar
  • Glæsibær
  • The entire area inside Skeiðarvogur-Langholtsvegur-Sólheimar which includes a public library, two kindergartens and a church
  • The streets, parking lots, and apartment buildings between Álfheimar and Fjölskyldu- og húsdýragarðurinn

• Vogar
  • Some streets and parking lots east of Sæbraut, between Kleppsmýrarvegur and Holtavegur
  • Knarrarvogur (to the west of Geirsnef)
  • The buildings in Mörkin

• Sund
  • Some streets and footpaths inside the Njörvasund-Drekavogur-Langholtsvegur-Skeiðavogur area
  • The area surrounding Kleppsgarðar
  • Laugarás
  • Some parts of Sæviðarsund

• Háaleiti - north of Miklabraut
  • Some substreets of Háaleitisbraut, Álftamýri, and Safamýri
• Háaleiti - south of Miklabraut
  • Substreets of Heiðargerði

• Laugardalur
  • Some footpaths, especially in Grasagarðurinn
  • Various recreational areas
  • The area between Suðurlandsbraut and Fjölskyldu- og Húsdýragarðurinn
  • The paths around Áskirkja

• Gerði
  • Many substreets of Langagerði
  • Buildings, parking, and playgrounds of Réttarholtsskóli at the corner of Réttarholtsvegur and Bústaðavegur
  • Substreets of the west end of Sogavegur
  • Almost half of Hæðargarður, or what looks like a footpath or cycleway extending east from Hæðargarður
  • Austurgerði and nearby residential streets at the end of Sogavegur
  • One substreet of Rauðagerði
  • Cycleway connected to the east end of Tunguvegur
  • Footpath or cycleway going from Bústaðavegur across Hólmgarður and Hæðargarður

• Teigar
  • Ásmundarsafn and the paths around it

• Lækir
  • Substreet of Dalbraut, Laugarnesvegur, Brekkulækur, Rauðalækur, and Jökulgrunn
  • One northbound substreet of Sundlaugavegur
  • The playground near Rauðalækur

• Laugarnes
  • Substreets of Laugarnestangi, Köllunarklettsvegur, Klettagarðar, Korngarðar, and Sundagarðar

Landuse

There are limited landuse=* markings. More need to be added.

Akranes

• Town road network 98% mapped -- see OpenStreetBugs for the missing bits
• Great landuse coverage
• TODO
  • More POIs
  • The outdoor area to the north-east of the town
  • The golf course to the north-east of the town
  • The farms adjacent to Innesvegur and Akrafjallsvegur
  • The industrial area off Akrafjallsvegur to the north of town
  • The coastline - it is quite inaccurate in places

Akureyri

• Streets finished
• The Hlíðarfjall skiing area underway, see WikiProject Piste Maps.
• TODO:
  • Map more footways, some are there but more are needed
  • Map ways outside the main town, such as in Kjarnaskógur, Hesthúsahverfi
• Bus relations:
  • Relation 1a:  2166820 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
  • Relation 1b:  2166788 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
  • Relation 2a:  2187834 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
  • Relation 2b:  2188649 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
  • Relation 3a:  2188675 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
  • Relation 3b:  2188706 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
  • Relation 4a:  2187818 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )
  • Relation 4b:  2187526 (XML, check, manage, JOSM, history, view, gpx )

Seltjarnarnes

• Streets and tracks done
• Cycleways done
• Landuse needs work
• Buildings done
• Sidewalks 50% done
• POI's need work

Selfoss

• Road network around 60% complete
• Needs more detailed landuse

• WikiProject Iceland/Cycleways - A sub-project for mapping cycleways

Highways

We're trying to map all the highways (Icelandic: Þjóðvegi) in Iceland. A list of them is maintained on the Icelandic Wikipedia and in addition Vegagerðin maintains vegaskrá which is a more detailed document.

Beside the list on Wikipedia, there is another list to see the progress on the Icelandic road system.

We should create a route relation for each highway, see the relation for Þjóðvegur #1 for an example, when you add a relation please add it to the Wikipedia page so that we'll eventually get a complete listing of all the national highways we've mapped.

Pistes

Skiing areas need mapping in Iceland, the coordination page for this is WikiProject_Piste_Maps#Iceland

Notes

The Ring road is linked up all the way round. It's somewhat coarse, but as people add in the roads along the edges, points can be added and dragged to make a better fit.

• 1 Suðurlandsvegur - Done for the most part. Need to add bridges and work on some of the junctions (e.g., the roundabouts in Hveragerði and Selfoss). Bridges are done around skeiðarásandur, but not necessarily tagged as single lane, nor are they completely done. River names, helpful for matching up the sign posts, are only done for a couple of big rivers.
• 1 Austurlandsvegur - Done for the most part. Need to add bridges.
• 1 Norðurlandsvegur - Done for the most part. Need to add bridges.
• 1 Vesturlandsvegur - Done for the most part. Need to add bridges.

• Lyngdalsheiðarvegur (365) between þingvallavatn and laugarvatn is marked, but needs the paved/unpaved sections marked.

Open Issues and TODO

• Named child glaciers in the south should probably be marked separately, possibly just with a point on the named tongue? Of course, I'm not sure of a copyright free source of these names.

Data sources

Free data sources

These have been confirmed to be under OSM compatible licenses and can be used while mapping:

• Vegaskrá from Vegagerðin is a public domain document, according to email correspondence with Vegagerðin. This means it can be used as a source of names and numbers for roads. We use the more common names for the ring road, but other than that, the vegaskrá is probably a good source. I followed up with Vegagerðin, asking if they had shapefiles or anything similar for the entire roadnetwork, as of October 11, they "do not provide any shapefiles or similar datasets for outside use" I didn't feel like pushing any further, though I'm sure that they probably could be convinced to do so if someone really wanted.

• Uppdráttr Íslands - A map of Iceland from 1844, can be useful for finding place names in combination with landsat imagery.

• Póstnúmera- og götuskrá póstsins. See [2] and Iceland postal code database which describes the data format.

• Friðlýst svæði á Íslandi - Nature reserve coordinates from Umhverfisstofnun.

Data already available

Some data is mapped based on sources provided by public agencies and other agreements OSM has made and mappers should be careful not to "correct" that data unless they have a good reason to.

• BING has an ongoing agreement with OSM to use its images. They licensed areal photos of Reykjavík from Loftmyndir ehf which are pretty good but are from the year 2004. Be careful of using the areal photos to edit areas in Reykjavík which have changed after that.

• LUKR pathway data is available and there's an agreement for a yearly update. The pathways are on OSM but don't appear until they're verified.

• Garðabær provided outlines of streets and pathways which have been processed. It still needs work and the town could use some POIs.

Potential data sources

• Á vefsvæðinu Ísland.is má finna lista yfir Sveitafélög og Opinberar stofnanir.

• Í skýrslunni Gagnagrunnar á Íslandi um náttúru, umhverfi og orku má finna upplýsingar um gagnagrunna sem hægt væri að nýta.

• Á vegum Ferðaklúbbsins 4x4 er starfandi Ferlaráð sem safnar ferlum af hálendinu í samstarfi við Landmælingar Íslands. Þeirra hagur væri rútanlega Garmin kortið og mikil kortagerðaþekking OpenStreetMap samfélagsins. (áður en haft er samband ættum við að kynna okkur hálendiskortlagningu OpenStreetMap í öðrum löndum).

• The city of reykjavik, operating Borgarvefsjá replied to my query about licensing with this,

You are free to use what you see in Borgarvefsjá. You can download it through the Print button, which is nr. 9 from left on the tool bar on the lower edge of the screen. You should let be seen from where you get the data if you are publishing some products based on this data on the Internet.

I don't feel that's very clear, and I don't feel like chasing it up further, but anyone else feel free to, in the meantime, I won't be using it. I can provide the details of who I was talking to there if anyone wants Kpalsson 22:30, 25 October 2007 (BST)

• Óbyggðanefnd - Óbyggðanefnd is working on defining borders of commons owned by the government (þjóðlendur) as distinct from private property. It would be good to get these borders on OSM as they're very useful for e.g. hunting.

• LMÍ maintains a database called lýsigagnavefurinn which aggregates map databases of Iceland. A lot of these are privately owned and some might be willing to donate data.

• A database of swimming pools is at sundlaugar.is.

• A database of camp sites is at tjalda.is.

Contacted owners of data sources

Data owner	Contact (i.e. department)	Data requested	Status	User
Siglingastofnun	Þórunn Elín Elínardóttir	Hafnarkort	(2009-10-15) Contacted via email, recieved reply with further questions. Qestions answered. Waiting further reply.	Þórir Már
Landhelgisgæslan		Vitaskrá	(2009-10-15) No contact made yet.
Bæjarskrifstofur Seltjarnarness	Ólafur Melsteð	Data from Landupplýsingakerfi Seltjarnarness	(2009-10-27) Email sent to Ólafur Melsteð	Þórir Már
Hafnarfjörður	Guðjón Ingi Ellertsson, skipulags- og byggingasvið	Street and path coordinates, location of streets and house numbers, height lines	Official request to Skipulags- og byggingaráð	Svavar Kjarrval
Garðabær	Eysteinn Haraldsson, bæjarverkfræðingur	Any data useful for maps	Request approved. Got outlines for streets and pathways in Microstation DGN format.	Svavar Kjarrval
Mosfellsbær	Þór Sigurþórsson & Tómas Guðberg Gíslason, employees at Tækni- og umhverfissvið	Any data useful for maps	(2010-11-29) E-mail sent to Þór Sigurþórsson & Tómas Guðberg Gíslason	Svavar Kjarrval
Umhverfisstofnun	Jón Örvar Geirsson Jónsson, Svið fræðslu og upplýsinga	Nature reserve coordinates	(2011-04-28) Request approved.	Davíð Jakobsson

Import work

Ongoing import work

We are working on importing a dataset donated by Reykjavík city, more info here: WikiProject_Iceland/LUKR.

Nature reserve import, tagging scheme described here: WikiProject_Iceland/nature_reserve.

Finished import work

See WikiProject_Iceland/ourFootPrints for information on the ourFootPrints import.

Bus stops in the capital area, see [3] and [4] for more information.

People involved

See also: Category:Users in Iceland

• Bjarki Sigursveinsson
• Þórir Már Jónsson
• Karl Palsson
• Þórir Tryggvason
• Jóna Þórunn Ragnarsdóttir
• Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
• Davíð Jakobsson
• PhilippeP
• Christoph
• Snorri Guðjón Sigurðsson
• Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson
• Svavar Kjarrval

See also

• Garmin map of Iceland - The OSM map of Iceland on your Garmin, updated daily
• Contours for Iceland - Free and non-free sources of contours for Iceland.