New municipal web portal launched by the City of Hafnarfjörður

Electronic information dissemination for all stakeholders

Hafnarfjörður places great emphasis on digital services and communication for its residents and other stakeholders. As part of this process, the municipal web viewer and geographic information system, Granni, has been launched. The engineering firm EFLA manages Granni and has spent the last few months working on a new and significantly improved municipal web portal, which has now been launched. In Granni's central, open-access area, a wealth of information can be found regarding planning matters, the council's operations and services.

Opna Granna – a municipal web viewer for Hafnarfjörður: https://hafnarfjordur.granni.is

Electronic information dissemination

With Granna – town web viewer You can access a variety of data, such as drawings of houses and plots in the town, detailed plans, neighbourhood boundaries, school catchment areas, and heritage and protected areas. Information can also be found on certain basic municipal services, such as the locations of schools, institutions, playgrounds, swimming pools and kerbside recycling bins. It is also possible to view the layout of the water, heating and sewerage supply, along with the pipe routes. Furthermore, plans from the building control officer are uploaded to the web map as soon as they are approved, making them quickly and easily accessible.

„This is a welcome step in our digital journey. We are nowhere near finished and will continue to develop and shape Granna in close collaboration with EFLU and users. We have already taken a lot of information that was previously in PDF documents on our website and made it more dynamic in the new web viewer. The aim for the future is for Granni to become a real-time source, and for all necessary drawings and key information to be hosted in the municipal web viewer.“ says Sigurjón Ólafsson, Director of the Service and Development Department and one of those who has sat on the project's working group.

^{A team of staff from EFLU and the City of Hafnarfjörður has been involved in the development and implementation of this project. Here you can see part of the team, from the left, Atli Freyr Friðbjörnsson and Þorsteinn Helgi Steinsson from EFLU, Rósa Guðbjartsdóttir, Mayor, in the centre, and on the right, Sigurjón Ólafsson, Director of the Service and Development Department, and Árdís Ármannsdóttir, Communications Manager.} 

User-friendly and centralised database

Granni 2020 is a geographic information system and web portal from EFLU for municipalities, institutions and companies, where a wide range of information on construction, planning and operations can be shared. The portal is updated daily and always reflects the latest information.