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Guide to editing the Waze map in Iceland

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Welcome! Hopefully, you are here because you want to learn more about mapping Iceland in Waze. We're glad you're here and hope you find all the information you need.

This wiki aims to lay out all the policies and editing best practices we adhere to in Iceland to keep everything consistent and of high quality across the country. It is important that you adhere to these standards to give a solid user experience for our drivers.

Editing Best Practice

Overall, we follow global best practice with some small exceptions to cover local conditions, such as for road naming. What is described here just covers local variations from practice elsewhere.

For anything not covered here, we generally follow USA best practice. For anything not documented in the USA page, we follow global best practice.

Iceland's road system is broadly similar to that of the EU, except that there is less traffic and there are no motorways. The legal systems are similar and the traffic rules are almost identical. Many road signs are different (but still simple), speed limits and distances are always indicated in km and numbered roads and their names are specific to Iceland.

Speed Cameras

There are single-point fixed speed cameras in Iceland. There are red-lights camera in the capital area. There are speed cameras in the most important tunnels, and recently has added average-speed cameras.

Naming

Languages

All official names are shown in Icelandic language For many natural features and tourist attractions an English name has been added to highlight it better, for example "Waterfall" In Waze, we use the number of the road that appears on national signs, and the official name of national map.

Map Issues

Map Issues are reports by users via the app. These appear in WME as User Requests, or URs for short, and they cannot be re-opened once closed.

Out of courtesy, even if the UR is submitted by yourself, please leave a comment when closing one. This will help other editors in the area understand what might have changed.

When the last comment in a UR is older than 1 month, it should be closed in order to keep the map tidy. Always leave a comment when doing so.

If there was an ongoing conversation in an old UR, please be courteous and ask the involved users if it's OK to close. If said question is older than 1 month, it's OK to close. Always leave a comment when doing so.

Places (POIs)

Below you can see the published version of our live spreadsheet. You can scroll down and right to see more information.

Telephone number format

The preferred telephone number format is according to the E.123 international standard - i.e. +354 xxx xxxx. Besides providing consistency, this also helps international visitors dial the number. Separate the parts of the number with spaces and break up the local part of the number with spaces too using 3+4 digits for seven digit numbers.

Temporarily closed petrol stations

When petrol stations are closed temporarily, remove the brand and append "(Closed )" in the place name. This way this petrol station will still appear in search results, but with the place name instead of the brand.

Independent petrol stations

When the brand of a petrol station doesn't appear the brand drop-down, leave the brand blank. This way the petrol station will appear in search results with the place name instead of the brand.

Other Topics

Can't find what you're looking for?

In case you are looking for information that you have been unable to find in Iceland's Wazeopedia, we would encourage you to look for the information on the Global Wazeopedia. If the information you are looking for is specific to Iceland and is not found in the Global Wazeopedia, we would invite you to open a thread on our local Waze forum. This way we can discuss the matter and potentially make it a policy here.