ICELAND 2024.21 for Android
Get the Android version of our map of Iceland onto all of your Android devices (phone or tablet). It is designed to be used in the OruxMaps app, available in Google Play.
The map is based on the same map as our Garmin version except this version has additional data for benches, traffic lights, trash bins and recycle bins in the Greater Reykjavik area.
Includes:
- Map with all information (Detailed)
- Map without text on height contours and houses and only with important POI's (Focused)
- Two variants of the above maps with special higlighted F-Roads for experienced traveller on a well equipped vehicle
- Hillshade files to add depth to the look of the map
Note: The files are compressed in one 362 MB large ZIP file, so we recommend to download it to a computer and manually install the files to attached Android device.
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Updates in this version
- All paths and walkways updated and now exclusively using OpenStreetMap (OSM version 08.09.2024). Now using the whole path collection showing a lot more paths than previously. Other paths from other sources have been removed to avoid conflicts
- Forests from OSM (OSM version 08.09.2024)
- Special tree icons in polygons for OSM forests
- Major changes to highway 1 between Hveragerðis and Selfoss
- 70+ new mountain tops marked mostly in the highlands
- Blue lagoon - Road changes due to the volcanos
- Lava fields in February have been mapped in the Reykjanes peninsula
- Bakkafjörður - All house outlines added
- Hafnir - Buildings with house numbers added
- Vík í Mýrdal - More houses and updated roads
- Reykjahlíð - Building outlines added
- Hólmsheiði - Jail added (Fangelsið á Hólmsheiði)
- Hafnarfjörður - Ásvallabraut has new roundabout and new neighbourhood under construction
- Mosfellsbær - New roads in new suburbs
- Selfoss - New buildings and roads
- Álftanes - New streets Gásamýri and Svanamýri
- Vestmannaeyjar - New streets and buildings added
- Akureyri - random updates, new streets around Hrímland
- Jökulsárlón - Vestri-Fellsfjara parking updates mapped
- Kópavogur - Many buildings simplified and added house numbers
- Keflavík - New roundabout at Hringbraut
- Viewport on Bolafjalli by Bolungarvík
- Land extensions into ocean mapped in the capital area
- Urriðavöllur golfclub - New roundabout and improved access
- Setberg golfclub - unpaved section to Elliðavatnsveg
- Garður - Klappa- and Teigahverfi with new buildings
- Vífilstaðavegur - New roundabout
- Urriðaholt - New roads and changed collector roads (stofnvegir)
- Vesturlandsvegur - Newly built road sections and roundabout between Mosfellsbær and Kjalarnes
- Road 853 Hvammavegur - Totally paved now
- Bridge Kvíá í Öræfum - Moved
- Road 866 Oddaskarð - New road with bridge
- Road 60 Vestfjarðavegur - New section near Hestur mountain by Geirþjófsfjörð
- Road 835 Hvammavegur paved
- Road 923 Jökuldalsvegur has a new path and more paved
- Road 351 all paved now
- Road 252 more paved and changed road to Ártúnsvegur
- And other exclusive undocumented features
- Extras in 2024.21 version:
- Blönduós - Lot of changes to higways north from Blönduós to Skagaströnd 73, 74, 740
- Mosfellsbær - Bugðumelar and surroundings, new building and driveways
- Laugarvatn - Buildings and area updated Road 711
- Vatnsnesvegur - Modified with new bridge
- And other exclusive undocumented features
Android version only: - Kópavogur - All benches have been marked with data from Kópavogsbær
- Reykjavík - All benches updated with latest version
- Reykjavík - All neighbourhood recycle containers (Grenndargámar) updated with latest version
- Reykjavík - All recycle bins updated with latest version
Included Files
Included with this purchase are 4 different versions of the map and basic hillshade files.
- Detailed Map
- Focused Map
- F-Road Special Detailed Map
- F-Road Special Focused Map
- Hillshade files
What is the difference between the files?
Detailed Map - Has everything!
Focused Map - Designed to be less cluttered and shows less indormation than the detailed map:
- No height elevation numbers
- No house numbers on buildings
- No text on some other polygons as well
- No labels on Powerlines
- All secondary POI's are removed with only the most important ones showing
F-Road Special - Changes the colors of all the roads for people who want to get better view when driving on bad unpaved roads:
- All paved roads are gray
- The best quality unpaved roads are brown
- F1 class umpaved roads are yellow
- F2 class unpaved roads are orange
- F3 class unpaved roads (worst quality paths) are red
Hillshade - The basic package for hillshade giving depth to mountains and valleys. For much better quality, see HD Hillshade in the store.
Extras in Android version
- With additional data for benches, traffic lights, trach bins and recycle bins in the Greater Reykjavik area.
Copyright Disclaimer
© GPSmap.is - Ívar Kjartansson
© National Land Survey of Iceland (Landmælingar Íslands)
© Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration (Vegagerðin)
© LUKR (Landupplýsingakerfi Reykjavíkur)
© Safetravel.is (Slysavarnafélagið Landsbjörg): Crevasee Maps
© OpenStreetMap contributors: Hiking paths and Forests
© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2018, European Environment Agency (EEA)
And many other contributers in their public and official capacity