The National Land Survey maintains a Geographic Names Register of all geographic names in Finland. The register contains data about approximately 800,000 named places and their names. The named places can be cities, towns, traffic operating points, waterways, hills, or other place features that have been named.
You can look at named places and their names on the Information cards for geographic names service. Use the search function to find place names. Each place name is shown on its own page with the place name shown on the map in a map window and a list of all the names of the place and its attribute data for classification and location. The attribute data of place features in the Geographic Names Register includes place type, location and height above sea level for the location. The attribute data for place names includes the spelling of the place name and the language of the place name (Finnish, Swedish, North Saami, Inari Saami or Skolt Saami).
The permanent URI is based on the permanent unique identifier of each feature in the Geographic Names Register and it can be used to link place names in other services with the information cards. The URI serves as the web address of the information card, which allows viewing the card but also linking it to any site, document, or service on the internet. For example, the information cards have been included as part of the search results of Asutusnimihakemisto (settlement name register) of the Institute for the Languages of Finland. Similarly, the National Library of Finland's Finto-service's YSO places (General ontology) has been linked to the information cards (for example Sevettijärvi (Inari)).
The background service for the Information cards for geographic names is the Geographic names interface service (OGC API Features) of the National Land Survey of Finland. The service is available for use free of charge with an API key or as a contract-based service. More information about the service is available in the service description.
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