MCP SERVER · 2026
Kartverket MCP
MCP server for Kartverket's open APIs — Norwegian addresses, place names, and elevation. No API key required.
kartverket-mcp
> mcp call kartverket.elevation lat=60.39 lon=5.32
{ elevation: 18.4,
unit: "m",
source: "Kartverket DTM10"
}
>
01 — WHY IT EXISTS
Three APIs, three shapes, one common need: Norwegian places.
Kartverket runs the canonical Norwegian geodata services — geocoding, place-name lookup, terrain elevation — across three separate APIs with different request shapes and rate limits. An MCP server papers over the differences and gives Claude one consistent interface.
02 — WHAT IT DOES
Geocode, look up place names, query elevation.
Search Norwegian addresses by free-text, look up official place names by area, get elevation in meters at any lat/lon. Open data, no API key, Norwegian context built in.
# in Claude
> What's the elevation at 60.39, 5.32?
> 18 m (Bergen city centre, Kartverket)03 — STATUS
Live and used.
Public on GitHub, MIT, npm-installable. The first of the Norwegian-API MCP set.
AT A GLANCE
3
APIs unified
0
auth required
MIT
license