Property and map guides
These guides explain what the information on Tonttikartta means, which law it rests on and where to check the official version.
Find an address on the map
Enter the street name and house number in the map search. For example, Harjuviita 18 is a street and house number; adding the municipality narrows the search. If an address produces several matches, add the municipality and check the result's location.
Guides
- Property boundaries: boundary markers, the map and boundary surveys
What defines a Finnish property boundary, why the map boundary is indicative, how to apply for a boundary survey, and who may move a boundary marker. - Palsta, kiinteistö, tontti and määräala: Finnish property units explained
The difference between a property, a parcel (palsta), a holding, a plot (tontti) and an unseparated parcel (määräala), and how Finnish property identifiers work. - How to read a Finnish detailed plan: markings, building rights and validity
How to read a Finnish detailed plan (asemakaava): plan map, regulations and report, common markings such as AO and AK, building rights, floor area and storeys. - Property area: the official register area and the area measured from the map
Why the area Tonttikartta measures from the map can differ from the official area in the Finnish property register, and where to get the official figure. - Map layers: what plans, protected areas, Natura and the other layers show
What Tonttikartta's map layers mean for a property: land-use plans, nature reserves and Natura 2000, floods, cultural heritage, groundwater, soil and noise.
This guide is general information, not legal advice. Legal effects are decided by the authorities and the documents named in it; the links open the current consolidated law in Finlex.
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