Open Government, Norway

About Open Government, Norway

Data.norge.no's dataservices section is a search catalog listing API and data services published by Norwegian government bodies and public registers. It aggregates entries from providers such as Statens kartverk (the Norwegian Mapping Authority) and Registerenheten i Brønnøysund (Brønnøysund Register Centre), covering domains like road network data, municipality and property registers, place names, business registry lookups, financial key figures from annual accounts, supervisory (tilsyn) data sharing, and government compensation scheme disclosures.

Individual listed services include APIs for road geometry (Forenklet Elveg 2.0), municipality and cadastral number changes from mergers, topographic map tiles, administrative unit lookups, place name search, business entity registry data with versioned REST endpoints, key accounting figures for companies, and compensation program grant disclosures. Several APIs are documented as requiring no login or authorization, return data in formats such as JSON, and some note limits like a 5000-result cap per query or recommend bulk downloads via geonorge.no for larger datasets.

The catalog is intended for users seeking public-sector datasets and APIs from Norway, such as developers integrating with government registries or mapping data, and includes search and filtering by type (datasets, APIs, concepts, information models, services and events).

Key features

• Search catalog of over 1000 Norwegian public sector data services and APIs
• Filter search results by type: datasets, APIs, concepts, information models, services and events
• Sort results by relevance or by most recently published
• Access APIs from Statens kartverk (Kartverket) for maps, addresses, place names and administrative units
• Access Enhetsregisteret API from Brønnøysundregistrene for registered legal entities and organization numbers
• API versioning via HTTP Accept-header with backward-compatibility change notices

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