Superficial deposits under the address point

ground_conditions6 fields6 of these fields open in the demo

Source: NGU løsmasser (superficial deposits)
Geography: The address point
Reported stale after: 1 year
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Contract version: 1

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What this does not say

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Point-in-polygon against NGU's løsmasse mapping, which does not cover the whole country: 38.6% of a sampled 2 673 addresses fall inside a mapped polygon. mapped=false therefore means NGU has not mapped this point, NOT that there are no deposits there, and it never establishes what the ground is. mapped=null means the layer holds no rows at all and the question was not asked. Neither may be read as a finding about the ground. NGU's thickness attribute is not served: the collector leaves thickness_class null in all 196 194 rows, and a field that is structurally always empty would read as "unknown for this address" when it is in fact never collected.
soil_type is NGU's løsmassetype for the polygon containing the point (e.g. marine deposits, bedrock, till). infiltration_potential is a mapped attribute of that polygon, not measurements at this address. mapped_polygon_area_m2 is the size of the smallest containing polygon and is a coarseness indicator: a large polygon means the classification is regional, not site-specific. Not a geotechnical assessment; a site investigation is the only basis for building decisions.

Fields

3 of 6 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.

Field	Type	Role	Demo
mapped	boolean \| null	value	open
soil_type	string \| null	value	open
soil_type_code	string \| null	context	open
soil_description	string \| null	context	open
infiltration_potential	string \| null	value	open
mapped_polygon_area_m2	number \| null (m2)	context	open

Fetch this section

Send the key in the X-API-Key header. The section can be fetched with the rest of the address, or on its own with pagination.

curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  'https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643?include=ground_conditions'

# paginated, one section at a time
curl --fail-with-body --silent --show-error \
  -H "X-API-Key: $APPROACH_API_KEY" \
  'https://api.approach.no/api/v1/addresses/285717643/sections/ground_conditions?limit=25'

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