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. 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.

Statistics

The XTM serialization of The Service Map has

  • 26929 topics
  • 107516 associations
  • 26635 topic base names
  • 30818 subject identifiers
  • 0 of subject locators
  • 51681 occurrences
  • 8 distinct topic classes
  • 10 of distinct types of associations
  • 12 distinct roles in associations
  • 26896 distinct players in associations
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