The Service Map - Helsinki region public services
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. Unfortunately the language of the information is Finnish.
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. Although the documentation doesn't explicitly say it, the lisence of REST interface resembles very closely Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.
Topic map conversion of The Service Map
Wandora Team has added Wandora a feature (not released yet) that can be used to extract information provided by The Service Map REST interface. Wandora Team publishes a complete extraction of The Service Map as an interesting piece of information and as a demonstration of the extractor. Reader should acknowledge that extracted topic map is a snapshot of information provided by the REST interface at the time extraction was performed.
Download the topic map conversion of The Service Map
Topic map conversion of The Service Map is available as a Wandora project file and as a XTM 2.0 topic map serialization.
- Wandora project file extracted 2012-01-20 (4117 KB)
- XTM topic map extracted 2012-01-20 (4723 KB, uncompressed 78 MB)
Statistics
The XTM serialization of The Service Map has
Number of topics 26929 Number of associations 107516 Number of topic base names 26635 Number of subject identifiers 30818 Number of subject locators 0 Number of occurrences 51681 Number of distinct topic classes 8 Number of distinct types of associations 10 Number of distinct roles in associations 12 Number of distinct players in associations 26896
