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Reykjavik area of 270 km 2 , including an urban area of 45 km 2 . The project was started in 1988, and
since then the surrounding municipalities and some of their public utilities have also been included in
the GIS-system. The buildings and parcels shown in LUKR are connected to corresponding records in
the Building Inspector's database and the National Real Estate Registry, which also has connections
to the National Population Registry, thus enabling municipal employees to make sophisticated queries
concerning demography, value etc. of areas of interest. The Borgarvefsjá ("City Webview", is an
internet tool intended to allow the general public to obtain maps and to make some of the data and
features of LUKR and connected databases available. All texts in the Borgarvefsjá are in Icelandic but
some themes and options have been translated into English.
Other key players include The Icelandic Meteorological Office, (www.vedur.is), Icelandic Institut of
Natural History (www.ni.is), Landsiminn (www.siminn.is), The National Energy Authority
(www.os.is), and the Public Road Administration, (www.vegagerdin.is)
For more than 14 years Isgraf ehf (www.isgraf.is) has been a reseller for Intergraph and Bentley in
Iceland. In that period systems from these vendors have been implemented at the majority of the
Icelandic municipalities and utilities that are using GIS. During the last 4 years Isgraf’s main focus has
been on Internet/Intranet solution and in partnership with Loftmyndir ehf has successfully implemented
such systems in many sites. Isgraf has from the beginning specialized in GIS systems for civil
engineers and has today over 80% of the Icelandic market share in DTM and road designing.
Samsyn ehf (www.samsyn.is ) is the official distributor of GIS related software from ESRI
(Environmental Systems Research Institute). Samsyn ehf is also a reseller of GIS data from The
National Land Survey of Iceland and Reykjavik GIS (LUKR). Among customers of Samsyn ehf are
some of the largest communities and companies in Iceland, such as the City of Reykjavik, Iceland
Telecom, Og Vodafone, The Land Registry of Iceland, National Land Survey of Iceland and Reykjavik
Energy with its world's largest and most sophisticated geothermal district-heating system, to name just
a few.
Other private GIS organisations in Iceland dealing with consultancy, and software systems
implementation include Snertill, www.snertill.is/eng (Autodesk), Landmat, www.landmat.com (mobile
services) , and Trackwell, www.trackwell.com (LBS).
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