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IGN Géoplateforme Geocoding Service

French address search, parcel geocoding, and reverse coordinate lookups from IGN Géoplateforme and Base Adresse Nationale.

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About

The IGN Géoplateforme Geocoding Service provides open geocoding and reverse geocoding for metropolitan France and overseas departments. Operated by the Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN) in cooperation with the Base Adresse Nationale (BAN) initiative, the service indexes street addresses, cadastral parcel identifiers, places of interest, and administrative units via standard OpenAPI REST endpoints.

Through Fibric, an operator references validated French postal addresses and cadastral parcels to normalize shipping destinations, resolve municipal routing points, and verify delivery accessibility across French regional territory without commercial geocoding charges.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from IGN Géoplateforme Geocoding Service and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • Forward street address search and geocoding based on the Base Adresse Nationale (BAN) dataset
  • Reverse geocoding resolving latitude and longitude coordinates into structured French street addresses
  • Cadastral parcel geocoding linking parcel sectional codes to parcel centroid and boundary coordinates
  • Points of interest (POI) and administrative division lookups across metropolitan and overseas French departments
  • Structured JSON responses containing address scores, postal codes, commune names, and INSEE codes

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Standardize French shipping addresses and INSEE commune codes

    Submit unformatted French addresses to the geocoding endpoint, proposing corrected street names, postal codes, and INSEE identifiers before order fulfillment.

    With Address Repair, Ship-To Change

  • Reverse-geocode delivery vehicle stops in French urban zones

    Convert GPS telemetry points into validated French street addresses to confirm proof of delivery and log technician arrival times.

    With Delivery Proof, Field Dispatch

Requirements

  • French address query text or WGS84 coordinate pairs for geocoding and reverse lookup requests
  • Handling of INSEE commune codes and French 5-digit postal code formatting structures
  • Adherence to public rate limit guidelines of 50 requests per second per IP address
Authentication
None. The IGN Géoplateforme Geocoding Service is openly available without an API key or authentication tokens, subject to standard IP rate limits.

Limits

  • Coverage is limited to the French Republic including metropolitan France and overseas departments and regions
  • Address scoring and precision reflect municipal submissions to the national Base Adresse Nationale database
  • Peak throughput is rate-limited to 50 requests per second per client IP address

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

What source database powers the IGN geocoding service?
The service queries the Base Adresse Nationale (BAN), the authoritative open address repository produced by French municipalities, IGN, and Etalab.
Is an API key required to query the Géoplateforme geocoding API?
No. The geocoding endpoint is accessible without an API key, supporting up to 50 requests per second per IP address.
What license governs IGN Base Adresse Nationale data?
Data is published under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 (Open Licence), allowing free commercial and non-commercial reuse with attribution.
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This Commons signal listing is developed, published, and supported by Fibric. It reads public data published by Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN / data.geopf.fr). Upstream agencies and projects are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Fibric and do not sponsor or endorse this listing. Trademark policy