[Talk-is] Data improvements in Iceland

[Matt Riggott]

Hi Morten,

> On 9 Jan 2019, at 11:18, Morten Lange <morten7an at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I agree with Jóhannes that what you propose sounds useul.
> 
> Additionally perhaps OSM editors could be granted permission to copy paths by hand from ja.is   
> Paths that are on the maps of ja.is, but are missing on OSM.

All the data shown on the Já map tiles is Samsýn's, it's not Já's to give away unfortunately. You could try asking Samsýn for permission if you haven't already.

But the Já maps — all of Samsýn's maps, as far as I know — use the ISN 93 projection whereas OpenStreetMap uses WGS 84, so the maps aren't directly comparable. If you had permission you could use it for reference but using it for tracing would only introduce errors.

M.

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Matt Riggott
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