The Location Innovation Hub is Europe’s only centre of excellence focused on location information. LIH works with a largenetwork of partners. Operations started in early 2023. “Our goal at LIH…
These models can be viewed in the Land Survey of Finland’s File service of open data. They provide building owners with useful information that supports their energy renovations and adaptation to climate…
Finland’s geographical centre has been an area of interest before. While some have suspended an analogue cardboard model, some have tried to find the centre using mathematics. Because the calculation…
National mapping agencies have long prided themselves on their topographic maps, traditionally printed on paper for use in hiking, exploring, and navigating. However, in recent years, the usage of paper…
The Advanced Technology for National Topographic Map Updating (ATMU) project was one of the first artificial intelligence (AI) projects in topographic data production of the National Land Survey of Finland…
As one of the most environmentally friendly modes of travel, cycling plays an important role in designing sustainable urban mobility. In an ideal, cycling-friendly city, the infrastructure should allow cyclists…
Congratulations, you have received heritage! Not just any heritage, but World Heritage. You do not need to pay any inheritance tax or worry about registering the transfer of ownership. Since…
In Finland, several organisations have collected and maintained land use and land cover information for decades now. They have collected information from various sources using different methods, and this information…
Lidar remote sensing datasets have become commonplace tools for many archaeologists. In Finland, NLS datasets offer an excellent starting point in planning and conducting archaeological surveys. Elevation model data is…
In the spring of 2020, the demo service of SYKE and Avoin illustrated on a map which places it would be interesting to obtain observations of thawing after a winter…