Where this comes from

Every place, coordinate and photograph in the outdoors section comes from an open source, used under its licence. Nothing here is taken from a paid or curated third-party map.

Sources in use

  • Wikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 3.0 de, CC BY 2.0, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, CC BY 3.0, CC BY 2.5, CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 2.0, Public domain, CC BY-SA 1.0, CC0, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY 2.5 dk, CC BY-SA 2.5, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY 1.0613 records
  • OpenStreetMapODbL-1.069 records
  • WikidataCC0-1.0946 records
  • WikipediaCC-BY-SA-4.0225 records

OpenStreetMap

Place locations, hiking-route geometry and car-park positions come from OpenStreetMap and are © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. The OpenStreetMap-derived subset of this dataset is available on request.

Elevation

Elevation: Landmælingar Íslands, IslandsDEM (CC BY 4.0)

A walk's climb is measured along its line on IslandsDEM, the 10 m national elevation model from Landmælingar Íslands (the National Land Survey of Iceland), used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Walking times are worked out from the distance and that climb, and are estimates. Licence

Photographs

Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons and are credited to their photographer, with their licence, on each page they appear on. Only files under CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA or a public-domain dedication are used.

Location maps

Where no licence-clean photograph of a place exists, its page shows a location map instead: Iceland's coastline from Natural Earth, which is in the public domain, with the place marked from its coordinates. We would rather show where a place is than a photograph of the wrong one.

Descriptions

The descriptions on these pages are written by us, from facts. Where a Wikipedia article was one of those facts' sources it is linked from the page. We do not reproduce Wikipedia text.

How places were chosen

The list is generated by a written rule, not hand-picked: every named feature of an included type inside Iceland, from OpenStreetMap or Wikidata. Every published place has its own page, built from the facts we hold about it. Where we do not have a fact, the page leaves it out rather than guessing.

Corrections

Think we have used something we should not have, or got a fact wrong? Write to support@lifepass.is and we will fix or remove it.

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