Norway: catalogue the sources (R5/R6/R2) — the go/no-go gate #210

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Adding four countries (Norway, Denmark, Czechia, Slovakia). This is Norway's gate issue:
catalogue the sources and make the go/no-go call, per .claude/skills/add-country/.

Deliverable: docs/country-no.md in the docs/country-gr.md reference shape — the
available → imported → worth-importing table, a licence per source (R2), a provider and
fetch-mechanics line per source (R130–R136), and a documented verdict per shared layer
(R11/R13), including "no acceptable source" as a written fact rather than an import gap.

Research verdict (2026-08-24): GO on every shared layer

Norway is the strongest of the four. No credentialed source anywhere. Every endpoint
below was fetched live; all hosts resolve over IPv4, so the Greece IPv6-vantage trap does
not apply.

Kartverket N50 Kartdata (ea192681-d039-42ec-b1bc-f3ce04c189ac) —
AccessConstraints: "Åpne data", CC BY 4.0. Verified by actually ordering and
unpacking two municipalities (Fedje 4633, Alvdal 3428), so the feature-type names are
from delivered GML, not a product spec: Veglenke (with vegkategori E/R/F/K/P and
typeVeg enkelBilveg/traktorveg/sti), Bane (anleggstype, banestatus, sporantall),
Stasjon (navn — named), Innsjø (+ vatnLøpenummer join key), ElvBekk /
ElvMidtlinje / InnsjøMidtlinje (the throughflow centrelines a Strahler network needs),
Bygning (gml:Surface — footprint polygons, not points), StedsnavnTekst
(fulltekst, a three-level navneobjekttype taxonomy, and språk).
Geonorge's download API is an order→deliver flow and it is completely anonymous.
POST https://nedlasting.geonorge.no/api/order with no email, no account and no token →
HTTP 200, file ReadyForDownload, zip downloaded and opened. The area codelist has 373
entries including landsdekkende code 0000 "Hele landet" — the whole country is one
order, not 357 municipalities.
NVDB Vegnett (CC BY 4.0, Geonorge) for road ref and street name, which N50 lacks.
NVDB API LES v4 — and a trap: v3 now returns HTTP 400 code 4018 and is being
decommissioned. Pin https://nvdbapiles.atlas.vegvesen.no/ (v4, verified live and
anonymous). Its data catalogue (424 object types) carries 770 Ferjesamband and
64 Ferjekai — so the road source does mark boat crossings and ferries is a
required layer, not an optional one.
Stedsnavn (komplett SSR) CC BY 4.0; Administrative enheter kommuner CC BY 4.0;
NVE ELVIS elvenett and NVE Innsjødatabase NLOD; Entur aggregated GTFS + NeTEx
NLOD, plain anonymous GET (verified HTTP 206 on both zips).

What this issue produces

docs/country-no.md with the catalogue, licences and per-layer verdicts (R129–R136).
A written go/no-go per shared layer.
Pinned, fetchable URLs for the pilot layers, ready for the pilot issue.

Decisions this issue must record, not defer

Svalbard and Jan Mayen scope. The Geonorge area codelist is mainland (15 fylke /
357 kommune) and Svalbard place names are a separate Norsk Polarinstitutt dataset, which
argues for mainland-only. That is a decision, not a finding — write it down either way.
water_points and airports: N50's full object catalogue has not been enumerated;
the class list above comes from two delivered municipalities. R6 says check the provider's
complete published class list before writing either a GO or an absence.

Border tests (R135): Norway borders Sweden and Finland, both already imported — the
first two-imported-neighbour case in the project. Svinesund (E6) and Kilpisjärvi (E8).

Adding four countries (Norway, Denmark, Czechia, Slovakia). This is Norway's gate issue: catalogue the sources and make the go/no-go call, per `.claude/skills/add-country/`. Deliverable: `docs/country-no.md` in the `docs/country-gr.md` reference shape — the available → imported → worth-importing table, a licence per source (R2), a provider and fetch-mechanics line per source (R130–R136), and a documented verdict per shared layer (R11/R13), including "no acceptable source" as a written fact rather than an import gap. ## Research verdict (2026-08-24): GO on every shared layer Norway is the strongest of the four. **No credentialed source anywhere.** Every endpoint below was fetched live; all hosts resolve over IPv4, so the Greece IPv6-vantage trap does not apply. - **Kartverket N50 Kartdata** (`ea192681-d039-42ec-b1bc-f3ce04c189ac`) — `AccessConstraints: "Åpne data"`, **CC BY 4.0**. Verified by *actually ordering and unpacking two municipalities* (Fedje 4633, Alvdal 3428), so the feature-type names are from delivered GML, not a product spec: `Veglenke` (with `vegkategori` E/R/F/K/P and `typeVeg` enkelBilveg/traktorveg/sti), `Bane` (`anleggstype`, `banestatus`, `sporantall`), `Stasjon` (**`navn`** — named), `Innsjø` (+ `vatnLøpenummer` join key), `ElvBekk` / `ElvMidtlinje` / `InnsjøMidtlinje` (the throughflow centrelines a Strahler network needs), `Bygning` (**`gml:Surface` — footprint polygons, not points**), `StedsnavnTekst` (`fulltekst`, a three-level `navneobjekttype` taxonomy, and `språk`). - **Geonorge's download API is an order→deliver flow and it is completely anonymous.** `POST https://nedlasting.geonorge.no/api/order` with no email, no account and no token → HTTP 200, file `ReadyForDownload`, zip downloaded and opened. The area codelist has 373 entries including **`landsdekkende` code `0000` "Hele landet"** — the whole country is one order, not 357 municipalities. - **NVDB Vegnett** (CC BY 4.0, Geonorge) for road `ref` and street name, which N50 lacks. - **NVDB API LES v4** — and a trap: **v3 now returns HTTP 400 code 4018 and is being decommissioned.** Pin `https://nvdbapiles.atlas.vegvesen.no/` (v4, verified live and anonymous). Its data catalogue (424 object types) carries **770 `Ferjesamband`** and **64 `Ferjekai`** — so the road source *does* mark boat crossings and `ferries` is a required layer, not an optional one. - **Stedsnavn (komplett SSR)** CC BY 4.0; **Administrative enheter kommuner** CC BY 4.0; **NVE ELVIS elvenett** and **NVE Innsjødatabase** NLOD; **Entur** aggregated GTFS + NeTEx NLOD, plain anonymous GET (verified HTTP 206 on both zips). ## What this issue produces 1. `docs/country-no.md` with the catalogue, licences and per-layer verdicts (R129–R136). 2. A written go/no-go per shared layer. 3. Pinned, fetchable URLs for the pilot layers, ready for the pilot issue. ## Decisions this issue must record, not defer - **Svalbard and Jan Mayen scope.** The Geonorge area codelist is mainland (15 fylke / 357 kommune) and Svalbard place names are a separate Norsk Polarinstitutt dataset, which argues for mainland-only. That is a decision, not a finding — write it down either way. - **`water_points` and `airports`**: N50's full object catalogue has *not* been enumerated; the class list above comes from two delivered municipalities. R6 says check the provider's complete published class list before writing either a GO or an absence. Border tests (R135): Norway borders **Sweden and Finland, both already imported** — the first two-imported-neighbour case in the project. Svinesund (E6) and Kilpisjärvi (E8).

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