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Nearest kindergartens

kindergartens20 fields14 of these fields open in the demo
Source
Nasjonalt barnehageregister (Udir)
Geography
Around the address
Reported stale after
120 days
Access
Requires an API key granted this section
Contract version
2
In packages
neighbourhood_life

What this does not say

Quoted verbatim from the section’s warnings field, exactly as the API returns it. They are not translated: a translation would show something other than what your response actually contains.

  • Active kindergartens from the national register by straight-line distance from the address point. Not walking distance, and proximity says nothing about whether a child would be admitted — catchment and admission are municipal decisions.
  • child_count is the number of children registered at the kindergarten. It is a size signal and NOT a vacancy: a full kindergarten and one with places open report the same number, and the register publishes no availability. Kindergartens the register gives no coordinate for are absent from this list rather than placed approximately.
  • Routes follow the car profile, from the address to the feature; ranking remains straight-line. Static modelled travel time excludes live traffic and emergency response. Road snapping is limited to 250 m at each end. Ferries may be included without timetable/wait guarantees. Graph source date is unverified unless supplied. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
  • walk_route and cycle_route follow OSRM's foot and bicycle profiles on the same OpenStreetMap data: paths and stairs allowed on foot, road rules for bicycles; modelled times at profile default speeds, not measured.

Fields

6 of 20 fields are value fields — the ones that decide whether a record actually says anything. The rest are context: identifiers, codes and timestamps. Fields marked “open” return values to anonymous callers; the rest require a key.

FieldTypeRoleDemo
idstring | nullcontext—
org_nrstring | nullcontext—
namestring | nullvalueopen
addressstring | nullvalueopen
postal_codestring | nullcontextopen
postal_areastring | nullcontextopen
municipality_codestring | nullcontextopen
is_publicboolean | nullvalueopen
child_countinteger | nullvalueopen
age_frominteger | nullcontextopen
age_tointeger | nullcontextopen
categoriesstring | nullvalueopen
coordinate_sourcestring | nullcontext—
latnumber | nullcontext—
lonnumber | nullcontext—
straight_line_distance_minteger | null (m)valueopen
fetched_atstring | nullcontext—
routeobjectcontextopen
walk_routeobjectcontextopen
cycle_routeobjectcontextopen

Fetch this section

curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643?include=kindergartens"

# paginated, one section at a time
curl -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643/sections/kindergartens?limit=25"

Try it now

This is a real call against the public demo, from here. What appears below is what the API returned — not a sample.