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Nearest known fire stations

nearby_fire_stations13 fields13 of these fields open in the demo
Source
DSB source cache
Geography
Around the address
Reported stale after
30 days
Access
Requires an API key granted this section
Contract version
2
In packages
prevention_context, civil_protection

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.

  • Ten nearest known stations by straight-line UTM33 distance, not emergency response coverage or arrival time.
  • 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

2 of 13 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
idinteger | nullcontextopen
station_namestring | nullvalueopen
addressstring | nullcontextopen
latnumber | nullcontextopen
lonnumber | nullcontextopen
station_typestring | nullcontextopen
manning_typestring | nullcontextopen
fire_departmentstring | nullcontextopen
straight_line_distance_mnumber | null (m)valueopen
updated_atstring | nullcontextopen
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=nearby_fire_stations"

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