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This service gives the possibility to search among the official settlement and nature names found in Lantmäteriet’s place name register and to display them in a map or orthophoto. The product name in Swedish is Ortnamn Direkt.
About this product
The place name information includes:
- County code
- Municipality code
- Civil parish town code and civil parish town name
- ID
- Place name
- Coordinate
- Language
- Name type
Statistics Sweden (Statistiskt centralbyrå, SCB) is responsible for listing geographical divisions and assigns codes for them. Here you can find counties and municipalities arranged by code number (new window)
Socken (Civil parish) and Stad (Town) are historical divisions that Lantmäteriet are responsible for. Read more about Socken och stad (new window)
The place name register is nationwide and currently contains around 980 000 place names. For locations in multilingual areas, two or three may occur.
The placename register is the standard for Sweden’s place names and contains the forms and spellings that have been officially established.
Maintenance and update frequency
The Place name register is continuously updated.
Availability
Our geodata services are normally available 24/7 and we provide support during working hours. Read more about availability to geodata services.
Documentation
Different versions of the services can overlap, so pay attention to which version you use. Version history describes the changes that occurred at each update.
| Version and date | Change since previous version |
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Version 2.1.0 New version Available in Production environment: |
Number of hits added to criteria search Geometry search included in criteria search Free text search expanded with the options Starting with, Exactly and Ending with Free text search supplemented with search within county or municipality |
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Version 2.0.0 Discontinued 2021-06- 09 |
Technical framework and standard for direct access services
Our direct access services are primarily based on standards from the World Wide Webb Consortium (3WC) och The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
World Wide Webb Consortiums website (new window)
The Open Geospatial website Consortium (new window)
The service interfaces are REST based where object types are in many cases built using GML (Geography Markup Language) or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to describe its geographical properties.
The services are of the nature 'question-answer' where the consumer (user's system) sends a service call with search terms or selection parameters over the Internet and receives a list with one or more geographical objects in response.
To quickly get started and test the services before they are integrated into a separate system, a tool such as Postman can be used as a tool for testing REST-based Webservices.
Postman's website (new window)
Do you want deeper technical information about our geodata products you can read the product documentation.
Our geodata products with API:s require that you have an application or software capable of managing the services. To view real property information or maps directly in your browser, you can use Lantmäteriet's e-services.
Order product
You can order geodata products directly from us or from one of our resellers. The resellers can also help you with customization and processing of the products.
Order from Lantmäteriet
If you want to order directly from us at Lantmäteriet you should use the Order form.
If you want to use our spatial data services in your business, you first need to sign a license for use. Submit a request in the Order Form.
Order from resellers
Do you want help with customizing and processing our products and services? Then you should contact one of our resellers.
Copyright and publication
In some cases you need permit to distribute geographic information. Read more on the page Copyright and publication of Lantmäteriet's geographical information.
API-portal
In the API portal you, as a user of Lantmäteriet's direct access services, you can among other things, manage access keys for the services you have access to.
As a logged in user, you can view and manage the services you have access to, as well as create access keys and access groups.
The API portal is available for both production environment and verification environment for our direct access services. You log into the respective environment's API Portal to manage services and permissions for that environment.