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The National Land Survey of Iceland offers several Map Services of use on the web.

In the Map Viewer you can look at data based on the IS 50V database of the institute, Atlas maps on a 1:100 000 scale and SPOT-5 satellite images in natural and infrared colours.

You can search place names, view coordinates and measure distances.

The information on the IS 50V data is downloaded directly into the database. You can not zoom in further than 1:10 000. The place names are linked to scale so that they increase in number as the scale expands. SPOT-5 satellite images have been spliced together in a mosaic. The images were taken between 2002-2007 and have 2,5m ground resolution. The SPOT-5 satellite images were bought by a great number of institutions, public companies and municipalities to be used by the Icelandic government. You can zoom into scale 1:2000.

The Atlas maps were originally made by the Danish surveyors in the first four decades of the 20th century. The last updates were made in 1989 and are considered to be among the most beautiful maps of Iceland. The maps can be viewed on a scale up to 1:10 000.

For those using Mac, you need to go to adobe.com and update to Flash Player 10.1.85.3 in order to use the place name seeker with Icelandic letters, it will then work with Safari and Chrome. Firefox is missing þ and ð.

In the CORINE viewer you can see the division of land cover in Iceland in 2000 and 2006.

The Map archive of NLSI is quite remarkable. Over 2500 maps have been registered. Most of the archive are maps that NLSI has published since the establishing of the institution in 1956 but it also contains versions from other parties. There are also many maps from the Danish surveyors dating from 1900-1939. The maps have been scanned to ensure that backups are available and to facilitate access to the maps. In this service you can retrieve information on the maps and look at them. You can view all maps where the NLSI holds publishing rights.

On the Municipalities window you can get viable information on the municipalities in Iceland:

Size
Population
Population density
Name of the municipality

The National Land Survey of Iceland holds a great amount of sources on the position of municipality boundaries in Iceland. The boundaries have changed considerably in recent decades, mainly due to municipal mergers. Therefore, in some places the sources on the boundaries are no longer relevant. In order to facilitate access to this data they have been scanned and made available on the website.

The Cocodati programs offers users to project/calculate between the coordinate systems applicable in Iceland. It also helps one to calculate distance between coordinates and directions, magnetic declination, provides information on GPS ground control points and conversion between coordinate systems.

Drawings of Icelandic farms made by the Danish surveyors

In the first years of last century Danish surveyors drew many urban areas and Icelandic farms. Part of these drawings is available here and can be studied by clicking on the squares on the map.