Metsä Advisor: Finnish Forest Intelligence on Three Open APIs
Metsä Advisor: Finnish Forest Intelligence on Three Open APIs The Problem Finland has about 344,000 private forest holders. Most own forest as a secondary asset, not a full-time profession. They all ask the same two questions periodically: what’s actually on my property, and what is it worth right now? The data exists. Three Finnish government agencies publish it under CC BY 4.0: Maanmittauslaitos — cadastral boundaries via OGC API Features Metsäkeskus — forest stand inventory via WFS Luke — regional stumpage prices via PxWeb The problem is the plumbing. Three protocols, three data shapes, schemas that assume you already know what you’re looking at. Metsä Advisor is an agent that does the assembly. ...