You can use the address interface of Uusimaa to search for official addresses and their coordinates for the entire Uusimaa region. The interface provides the coordinates, postal code and municipality name for the address, as well as the street address and municipality name in Swedish, if available. The interface provides the data in JSON or XML format.

You can also use the interface to search for addresses based on distance, bounding box or coordinates. The coordinate system used is WGS84 (EPSG: 4326).

Documentation in accordance with the OpenAPI specification is available for the interface.

The data available through the interface is based on the data provided by the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency’s Digiroad service.

API key

The use of the interface requires an API key. The API key can be ordered from palvelukartta@hel.fi

Data and Resources

Additional information

Administrator Helsingin kaupunginkanslia / Digitalisaatioyksikkö
Source Digiroad / Väylävirasto
Published 14.01.2022
Update frequency
More information
  1. https://paikkatietohaku.api.hel.fi/schema/docs/
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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
How to reference Source: Address API of Uusimaa. The maintainer of the dataset is Helsingin kaupunginkanslia / Digitalisaatioyksikkö and the original author is Digiroad / Väylävirasto. The dataset has been downloaded from Helsinki Region Infoshare service on 24.11.2024 under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
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