The Service Map - Helsinki region public services

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The Service Map (Palvelukartta in Finnish) is an open web service providing information of public services in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen cities. All cities locate in southern Finland and are sometimes called as a Helsinki region cities. Helsinki is a capital of Finland. Public service information includes nearly all services and service units of the community, for example

  • Public libraries in Helsinki region
  • Schools in Helsinki region
  • Healthcare units in Helsinki region
  • Public toilets in Helsinki region
  • Voting locations in Helsinki region
  • Museums in Helsinki region
  • And many more...

All service units have a GPS location, keywords describing the services provided by the unit, service department, city and city region the unit locates.

The Service Map has an open REST interface (introduction in Finnish). Use lisence of the REST interface allows free information distribution and usage and remixing both in commercial and uncommercial context if content author, Helsingin kaupungin toimipisterekisteri/ http://www.hel.fi/palvelukartta/ is credited. Information user should acknowledge that the content author doesn't give any kind guarantee related to the information provided by the service map. Also, content author can not be used to advertise any application or service using information provided by the service.