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Geographic data

Statistics Finland's open geographic data are part of the national geographic information interface and they have also been published in the national geographic information portal Paikkatietoikkuna. As part of the infrastructure, the data and services are integrated with other data belonging to the spatial data infrastructure. The standards that define the services and part of the data can be found in the following regulations:

• Inspire directive (2007/2/ EC)
• Act on spatial data infrastructure (421/2009)
• Government decree on spatial data infrastructure (725/2009).

On this page you can find Statistics Finland's geographic data that can be used as interface services (WMS/WFS). 
1.    View and download data in Statistics Finland's map service. (NB: some functions are limited with the Firefox browser)  
2.    Please take the data into use with your own application using the interface addresses given in the table below (instructions for implementing interface services in QGIS software (PDF). 
3.    Download the data for your use by URL inquiries (instructions for downloading map data through the URL address (PDF). You can define the characteristics of the data to be downloaded in the query, like the file format or the desired area.   

The metadata descriptions of each data can be found in Paikkatietohakemisto (spatial data index).

Instructions

• Implementation of Statistics Finland’s interface services in the QGIS application (PDF)
• Downloading map data through a URL address (PDF)

More information on geographic data can be attained by contacting sijaintipalvelut@stat.fi.