Paikkakunnat
Places
See Fi:Key:place (in Finnish) for details on definitions. They generally obey the English equivalents.
Municipalities, cities and Towns
Finland has been divided into municipalities that have well defined administrative borders and authority over the area. The number of municipalities compared to the population results with a large number of small entities by population. The English city/town terms does not map directly to the terms used in Finland, as each municipality may independently decide on city/town status (that has no legal meaning) and there may be multiple towns in a municipality. There are more than 100 cities, smallest having only slightly more than 1000 population. To make the map less crowded we mark the smaller cities as towns.
As of 1.1.2009, there are 348 municipalities and of these 113 are cities. Every now and then mergers reduce count, even if the towns remain.
Municipality Borders
Proper border information would be the preferred way to decide in what municipality a feature is located in. Some municipality borders does exist already so features inside these would not need is_in as it's error prone and does not have a strict hierarchy. Unfortunately we don't have border information for all municipalities yet so for those that are without we must still use a proper is_in tag for features.
Progress on entities
Cities and Towns
See city pages for detailed progress information and maps. Please add yourself and the place(s) you are working on.
| City/Kaupunki (Fi) | Stad (Sv) | Progress/Coverage | Who | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Espoo (Map) | Esbo | Very good | User:Onion,User:Jukkas | Progress very good. Yahoo! Aerial Imagery available. | |
| Forssa (Map) | Some major roads only | User:Onion | |||
| Halikko (Map) | Some major roads in the centre, area of Märynummi contains all roads | User:Jupis | |||
| Hamina (Map) | Fredrikshamn | ? | ? | ||
| Heinola (Map) | Some roads. | ? | |||
| Helsinki (Map) | Helsingfors | Very good | User:Toki,User:Jku, User:Bergie and unknowns. | Progress very good. Pretty good POIs coverage. Yahoo! Aerial Imagery available except for the new area gained from Sipoo. | |
| Hyvinkää (Map) | Hyvinge | Good | ? | ||
| Hämeenlinna (map) | Tavastehus | Very good | User:boozeman | Rapid progress. Almost all of the suburban areas ready. About 90% of all driveable streets traced and drawed. Good POIs coverage. Cycleways next in queue. | |
| Imatra (Map) | Some major roads only. Karhukallio suburb done. | ||||
| Iisalmi (Map) | Idensalmi | ||||
| Joensuu (Map) | Good | Lumikko, JiiPeeG, User:paxed and others | |||
| Jämsä (Map) | Some roads | User:Onion, ij | Nearly all roads of northern Länkipohja (was recently merged into Jämsä) | ||
| Järvenpää (Map) | Träskända | Good | User:juhe and others | ||
| Jyväskylä (Map) | Good | - | Good coverage. A bit messy, though, too many nodes - and they're all tagged! | ||
| Kaarina (Map) | S:t Karins | Good | User:Onion | ||
| Kajaani (Map) | Kajana | Central is ready | la4de | Residential areas need more work. | |
| Kaskinen (Map) | Kaskö | Good | |||
| Keitele (Map) | User:Manaryde | ||||
| Kemi (Map) | Good | ? | |||
| Kerava (Map) | Kervo | Probably close to 90%, good coverage on all types of roads | User:juhe, hyrava, Tolstoi21 and others | Began mapping all the houses in Savio, Kannisto and Koivikko, will probably begin doing that to Sompio in early 2010 | |
| Kokkola (Map) | Karleby | Very good | User:Onion, User:Lazzko | Poor coverage in Kälviä, Lohtaja, Ullava and Öja. | |
| Kotka (Map) | |||||
| Kauhajoki (Map) | Good | ? | |||
| Kauniainen (Map) | Grankulla | Very good | ? | ||
| Kouvola (Map) | Some roads | User:kenkku | |||
| Kristiinankaupunki (Map) | Kristinestad | Good | |||
| Kuopio (Map) | Good | ? | City center pretty good | ||
| Kuusamo (Map) | Good | ? | |||
| Lahti (Map) | Lahtis | Good. About 60% of residential roads mapped. | JupeL, User:jrutila, User:procy0n, ninnnu, doni, mace, finosm500 | There is at least two mappers contributing almost every day. Since 2009-12-11 the aerial imaginery from Lahti is used to map buildings, missing streets, coastlines, landuse etc.. | |
| Lappeenranta (Map) | Villmanstrand | Good | ? | ||
| Lieksa (Map) | Very good | ? | |||
| Lohja (Map) | Lojo | Good | |||
| Loviisa (Map) | Lovisa | Some major roads only | |||
| Mikkeli (Map) | S:t Michel | Some roads | |||
| Naantali (Map) | Nådendal | Very Good | Unknown | Major roads and city center. | |
| Nokia (Map) | Very good | ? | |||
| Orivesi (Map) | Some roads | ||||
| Oulu (Map) | Uleåborg | Good | User:Cooz,User:Pfr | Some of the suburbs almost complete, most have some data | |
| Paimio (Map) | Pemar | Some major roads only | User:Onion | ||
| Pietarsaari (Map) | Jakobstad | Very good | User:Onion, User:Juhaz | Rapid progress | |
| Pori (Map) | Björneborg | Some major roads, a couple streets | User:Onion, User:PolarFox | ||
| Porvoo (Map) | Borgå | Good | User:Onion,User:RS | ||
| Raahe (Map) | Brahestad | ||||
| Raisio (Map) | Reso | Only a few roads. | ? | ||
| Rauma (Map) | Raumo | Nearly all streets are done. | Acex, Oh1gwk, Plenz | Many POIs need to be added. | |
| Riihimäki (Map) | Only a few roads. | ? | |||
| Rovaniemi (Map) | Rapid progress. | ? | |||
| Saarijärvi (Map) | Good | ? | |||
| Salo (Map) | Some major roads and streets. | User:Teemu_m, User:Jupis | Steady progress. | ||
| Savonlinna (Map) | Nyslott | City centre and west side forming up | User:Manuska | East side needs lots of work | |
| Seinäjoki (Map) | Major roads + Some areas covered. | ? | |||
| Tammisaari (Map) | Ekenäs | Good | ? | ||
| Tampere (Map) | Tammerfors | Very good | User:Kvalo,User:Mta,User:LH, User:Sparkly, User:Rammer and unknown(s). | ||
| Tikkakoski (Map) | . | . | arimo64, Lulu-Ann | See OSM for the blind, help here: | |
| Tornio (Map) | Torneå | Good | str | ||
| Turku (Map) | Åbo | Pretty good | User:Onion | Major roads and city center fully mapped soon. Pretty good POIs coverage. | |
| Vaasa (Map) | Vasa | City center and some suburbs pretty good | User:Lansion, User:Onion, User:Juhaz, User:jobster | Under rapid progress. Suburbs closest to the city center and all major roads finished. | |
| Sastamala (Map) | Valtaties and seututies, most of yhdysties; centre ok, few suburbs very good. | Thv, Galactic | |||
| Vantaa (Map) | Vanda | Very good | User:Rakshasa | Progress very good. Yahoo! Aerial Imagery available. | |
| Varkaus (Map) | |||||
| Ylöjärvi (Map) | Good | ||||
| Ypäjä (Map) | Some major roads only | User:Onion | |||
Municipalities
| Municipality/Kunta (Fi) | Kommun (Sv) | Progress/Coverage | Who | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hattula (Map) | Started | Boozeman | Some major roads, Suburban of Katinala | |
| Hollola (Map) | Varying degrees | Nikerabbit | Some places with good detail, but mostly only biggest roads | |
| Kirkkonummi (Map) | Kyrkslätt | KriXu | Many details missing | |
| Kittilä (Map) | Minimal | alv, ? | Some roads only, the Sirkka village at Levi a bit better. | |
| Luumäki (Map) | Minimal | rhk | Most roads of the town centre, some POIs, some smaller roads. | |
| Luvia (Map) | Minimal | Onion | Only some major roads around it (Valtatie 8, Kuivalahdentie) | |
| Muonio (Map) | Started | alv, ? | National highways and few local roads. Little coverage at municipality center, mostly stubs. | |
| Muurame (Map) | Good | ? | ||
| Mäntsälä (Map) | Central is ready | Dtoksi | ||
| Nurmijärvi (Map) | Very good | ? | Both Klaukkala and the City | |
| Renko (Map) | Rengo | Started | Boozeman | Some major and tertiary roads |
| Siilinjärvi (Map) | Central is ready | la4de | ||
| Sipoo (Map) | Sibbo | Minimal | ? | |
| Teuva (Map) | Östermark | Minimal | ? | |
| Tuusula (South,North) | Tusby | Some roads | hyrava, la4de and others | |
| Puumala (Map) | Started | Herbert | ||
Islands
We have too many of these to list here. Some can be found here.
Lakes
We have too many of these to list. So far most, if not all, have been traced from landsat images. If coastline length gets over 500 nodes or some map tiles full of lake appear as land, consider using natural=coastline.
Top 10 from Wikipedia:
| Place | Name | Location | km² | Finished | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saimaa | Etelä-Karjala, Etelä-Savo | 4 377,05 | 60% | Rapid progress tons of islands yet missing |
| 2 | Päijänne | Keski-Suomi, Päijät-Häme | 1 080,63 | ? | some or many islands missing |
| 3 | Inarijärvi | Inari | 1 040,28 | 100% | minor islands are missing |
| 4 | Oulujärvi | Kainuu | 928,09 | 95% | some minor islands are missing |
| 5 | Pielinen | Pohjois-Karjala | 894,21 | 0% | |
| 6 | Pihlajavesi | Puumala | 712,59 | 0% | |
| 7 | Orivesi | Savonranta | 601,30 | 0% | |
| 8 | Haukivesi | Savonlinna | 562,31 | 0% | |
| 9 | Keitele | Äänekoski ja Viitasaari | 493,59 | ? | only Ala-Keitele 100% |
| 10 | Kallavesi | Kuopio | 472,76 | 10% | |