Hi,

Unfortunately it's not quite as simple as that ;)

While Reykjanesbær is a municipality, it's also the name commonly used for the now-contiguous towns of Keflavík, Njarðvík, and Ásbrú.

I think we're probably in a transition period where the three places will eventually considered suburbs of a larger town (Iceland's national statistics agency no longer published separate population stats for Keflavík and Njarðvík, for example). But at the moment it's a bit ambiguous as to how they should all be tagged.

I moved the node back to the centre point of the three and re-tagged it as a town in changeset/109082601.

changeset/109082601

Happy mapping!

Brilliant, thank you!

Hi,

I was looking at a path you added in this changeset:

way/967249790

I can't see it on the Maxar satellite imagery and so I was wondering, do you have enough info to add the SAC scale and visibility tags?

sac_scale=*
trail_visibility=*

Thanks,
Matt.

Yeah, I didn't want to change Eiðsgrandi because I can see an argument for it being either primary or secondary, and I don't have a strong opinion either way. I mean, it does technically connect two towns, even if they're contiguous.

I agree with you on your other points. It'd be nice, too, if we could somehow squeeze Vegagerðin's distinction between primary roads and primary highland roads into OSM's tagging. But I'm not sure that there's any obvious tags for that.

Hi,

Thanks for all your hard work updating the road tagging recently.

I know that Vegagerðin classify Njarðargata / Þorragata (road nr. 414) as a primary road / stofnvegur, but I think this is a case where their categorisation doesn't match up with OpenStreetMap's.

The OSM wiki says a primary one is a "major highway linking large towns". The international equivalence page says that Iceland uses highway=primary for roads with a two-digit number, and highway=secondary for roads with a three-digit number.

highway=primary
osm.wiki/Highway:International_equivalence

Because of that documentation I went ahead and recategorised Njarðargata and Þorragata as a secondary highway in changeset/107255050.

I hope you'll agree, but any feedback welcome. Thanks again for your recent changes.

changeset/107255050

Hi synidd,

Unfortunately the data on map.is is the copyright of Loftmyndir ehf and isn't available to use on OpenStreetMap. The good news is we do have permission from Landmælingar Íslands to use their data on OSM, so I've updated the few things you sourced from map.is to use Landmælingar data instead.

Oops, thanks for letting me know. Fixed in changeset/105408175

Hi Le Bouchet,

I couldn't find any wiki documentation on the natural=lava_field_hot tag, so I retagged the multipolygon as geological=volcanic_lava_field. But if you think I've got that wrong, please let me know.

Hi,

Now I've had another look, I think I got this one wrong. When I looked at the Maxar satellite images I thought that this must be a new segregated walking/cycling path. I split the way and made an assumption that the footpath was the one nearest the coast (the general rule as far as I can tell). I was then going to take a visit to see if my assumptions were correct.

But you're right, this is really strange on the ground. Now I've had a closer look I'm almost certain it's supposed to be a two-lane cyclepath. But that's not what the road markings say. I can only think that, as you say, the contractors got the paint wrong, or that this is temporarily a shared path while the old footpath is part of the Hafnarbraut 14 building site.

I'll change this back to the previous tagging as soon as I get a chance. Thanks for letting me know.

Hi,

Welcome to OpenStreetMap! There's definitely no clinic or bookmakers within the boundary of Reykjavík Airport. Did you mean to place these nodes somewhere else?

Valleys aren't visible on the OSM map, but I think it's better to enter correct data than it is to try and get openstreetmap.org to render something (the "Don't tag for the renderer" guideline).

osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer

OSM data's used widely for academic research, other maps, geo search, and so we shouldn't prioritise the OSM map. It does shows up correctly as a valley in Nominatim, OSM's geocoder: osm.org/search?query=fagridalur

Valleys aren't visible on the OSM map, but I think it's better to enter correct data than it is to try and get openstreetmap.org to render something (the "Don't tag for the renderer" guideline).

osm.wiki/Tagging_for_the_renderer

OSM data's used widely for academic research, other maps, geo search, and so we shouldn't prioritise the OSM map. It does shows up correctly as a valley in Nominatim, OSM's geocoder: osm.org/search?query=meradalir#map=19/63.89280/-22.23783

And lots of others, which I reverted en masse: changeset/100901895

Hi and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

I've reverted your changesets that removed place=country and place=city from various countries and cities around the world, since the original tags contain useful information.

If you need any help with further edits, please don't hestiate to ask.

Hi ASR11,

Thanks for taking an interest in golf courses in Iceland. If I could make one suggestion: use the "Maxar Standard Imagery (Beta)" satellite imagery when editing. Maxar's imagery is from this year, Bing's is much older. Maxar is also much better aligned than Bing — Bing can be offset quite a bit.

Thanks again for your edits.

Hi Myriam,

Thanks for your changes to OpenStreetMap. I've tidied them up a little bit and marked the roads as access=destination — that way your guests can still get to your farm. If you think that's wrong then please do leave a comment and we can try to correct it.

I think it would be possible to add your full hike but tag it correctly using the trail_visibility and sac_scale keys.

trail_visibility=*
sac_scale=*

That way routing engines would be able to decide whether to use those trails or not (for example, to get *down* from the mountain), it would be possible for map renderers to display the types of paths differently, and other hikers could use the paths if they're up for the challenge. What do you think?

Hi kriksis,

There are two or three paths in this changeset that aren't connected to any others, and so they can't really be used by anyone. Can we make them more useful by connecting them to something?

No problem, I added it back in changeset/89967722.

Hi andershl,

Is this hiking route definitely no longer passable? There are a few OSM GPS traces that show a route through from Dettifoss to the hiking path a few hundred metres north. Are they out of date?