Hi,

I've no idea why these rocks don't appear on any of the satellite imagery, but they definitely exist. See, for example, https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/nature_and_travel/2017/05/15/incredible_location_for_a_lighthouse_perched_on_a_r/. It's a pretty spectacular setting!

That is interesting that JOSM and iD diverge and this.

I had a look at the wiki page for highway=cycleway and it says that there are indeed two tagging schemes in use:

highway=cycleway + foot=designated + segregated=no

highway=path + bicycle=designated + foot=designated + segregated=no

It's definitely the second one that's used in Iceland (I couldn't find any examples of the first scheme using Overpass Turbo). This must be one of those country-by-country differences that are common on OpenStreetMap.

highway=cycleway

OK, good to know. I changed the highway tag from cycleway back to path because that's JOSM's suggested tag for a shared path. I think some routers won't use cyclepaths for walking routes, even if they're tagged as foot=yes/designated.

Hi,

Sorry, I should have checked with you first. I kept the address on the IceTransport node as number 7, but I changed the building back to number 9 because that's how the official Icelandic address database (Staðfangaskrá) has it. That labels number 7 as the new building just to the south. I also checked the Já 360 image for the building, but couldn't see a number on the front (https://ja.is/kort/?x=354026&y=397286&nz=16.53&ja360=1&jh=38.7).

What do you think? Does Staðfangaskrá have the address wrong? Have IceTransport moved?

Hi averza,

Is this definitely a cyclepath only, and not a shared walking/cycling path?

Hi vinevzorova,

First-time editor vodyanoichelik reverted this changeset about ten minutes after you made the original change. Does that make sense to you?

changeset/110280523

Fixed in changeset/110025611

Lovely, thanks. I wasn't really interested in the legalese, it was more so that we had the permission listed somewhere so other people could find it. Now we just have the easy part of changing all the bus stops' names ;)

That's great, thanks for asking.

Do you think you could add the details and proof of the permission to <osm.wiki/Iceland#Data_sources>?

Hi,

Strætó also changed the names of ~500 bus stops over the weekend:

https://www.straeto.is/is/upplysingar/frettir/um-500-bidstodvar-straeto-breyta-um-nafn

They've updated their GTFS feed:

https://opendata.straeto.is/data/gtfs/

I'm not sure if we have permission to use that data on OSM, but we can ask if not. Do you think we could organise an automated import of this data? Perhaps something Apple would be interested in, seeing as they've done things like this before.

Hi,

You can definitely drive into the cemetery, with signage indicating a maxspeed of 20kph. I think the destination-only tagging is superfluous for vehicles because there are no through routes.

I'm not sure why I set bicycle=destination on the roads though, as there's nothing stopping you cycling through (any gates are left unlocked). I fixed that, added maxspeed tags, and altered a few other related things in changeset/109193967.

changeset/109193967

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.