Geographic data is everywhere: geolocation, navigation applications, urbanization plans, risk prevention plans, intelligent territories. "As a privileged instrument for data analysis and representation, maps allow us to understand territorial issues from a spatial perspective. The conversion of cartography to digital and the Web has transformed the role and status of maps as an instrument of public action," explains geographer Boris Mericskay. At a time of open data, massive data, and artificial intelligence, the map as an instrument of public action is undergoing a major transformation.
In 2018, a parliamentary report on sovereign geographic data called on the state to fully support the transformation of the IGN (Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière).
In 2021, the IGN identified a new "compass" for all of its activities and decided to place its activity in " a dynamic of building the commons: a set of geographic information databases (production) and digital tools (dissemination) accessible to the greatest number of people".
A Senate report inOctober 2022 validated the refocusing of the IGN on public service data useful for the management of the ecological transition and called on the IGN to strengthen its partnership with communities.
The IGN strengthens its ties with local communities through Geocommunes
Since the law n° 2015-991 of August 7, 2015 on the new territorial organization of the Republic, known as the "Notre law", the regions have seen their competences reinforced in terms of geographic information. Each region is now responsible for ensuring "the coordination, through a digital services platform that it runs, of the acquisition and updating of reference geographic data necessary for the detailed description of its territory as well as for the observation and evaluation of its territorial policies, data which it promotes access to and reuse," observes a Senate report devoted to the National Institute of Geographic and Forestry Information (IGN).
The regions have become the strategic drivers of geographic information policy. In parallel with the rise of the regions, the major cities are also devoting more and more resources to geolocalized information. Some pioneering cities such as Nice, Bordeaux, Lyon, Rennes and Strasbourg have particularly strong ambitions in this area.
Geocommons" and the Geoplatform program at the heart of the IGN's repositioning.
In 2019, the IGN has undertaken to transform itself and redesign its model. " From a mission of production-distribution of geographic information, the IGN is evolving towards the roles of data aggregator, expert, coordinator or certifier. It is refocusing its action on the production of sovereign base data as well as on the management of vast projects to support major public policies directly financed by their sponsors.
The "Geocommons" concept and the geoplatform program are thus at the heart of the IGN's repositioning. Intended to take over from the current geoportal, the geoplatform should constitute a shared infrastructure for the management and distribution of geographic information. However, Senator Vincent Capo-Canellas observes that there isstill a long way to go. He notes that, in addition to its own resources for updating various layers of the large-scale reference system (RGE), the IGN now aggregates data collected by partners, mainly from the public sphere. "A collaborative space that prefigures the geoplatform allows the IGN to collect data collected by the departmental fire and rescue services (SDIS), surveyors, local authorities or natural parks.
After outlining the prospect of a single cadastre between the tax authorities and the IGN, and reviewing the project for a single cadastral parcel representation (RPCU) and the simplified street plan (PCRS), Senator Vincent Capo-Canellas called for " strengthening and formalizing the IGN's collaborations with the local sector" and emphasized, in conclusion, " the importance for France of having a sovereign geographic reference institution such as the IGN to support prevention policies.
Référence :
The Geoplatform, future public space for geographic information
The Geoplatform program aims to provide public authorities with a collaborative and shared infrastructure for the production and dissemination of geodata. Its ambition is to allow public policy makers and local authorities who wish to do so to benefit very simply from advanced functionalities to disseminate their own data and open up to contributing communities. This future space, a geographic component of the State-platform recognized as a major digital project of the StateThis future space, a geographic component of the State-platform recognized as a major digital project of the State, responds in particular to the challenges of sovereignty of State data in the face of the Internet giants.
The IGN points out four issues
Build an open and shared platform dedicated to geographic information and contributing to the deployment of the State-platform,
Organize the collaborative mechanism for the maintenance and enrichment of geographic data within the public sphere,
Build an ecosystem of users; equip, support and connect existing communities,
To propose a new robust infrastructure that will ensure the recovery of existing services of the IGN and its partners; to optimize the access path to these resources and to offer complementary functionalities.
The total cost of the project is estimated at 21.5 M€. The Geoplatform, winner of the 2nd call for projects of the Fonds pour la transformation de l'action publique (FTAP), has received 3.6 M€ in funding. The rest of the funding is supported by the IGN.
Geocommunes and territorial data: the new map factory of public action
Geographic data is everywhere: geolocation, navigation applications, urbanization plans, risk prevention plans, intelligent territories. "As a privileged instrument for data analysis and representation, maps allow us to understand territorial issues from a spatial perspective. The conversion of cartography to digital and the Web has transformed the role and status of maps as an instrument of public action," explains geographer Boris Mericskay. At a time of open data, massive data, and artificial intelligence, the map as an instrument of public action is undergoing a major transformation.
In 2018, a parliamentary report on sovereign geographic data called on the state to fully support the transformation of the IGN (Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière).
In 2021, the IGN identified a new "compass" for all of its activities and decided to place its activity in " a dynamic of building the commons: a set of geographic information databases (production) and digital tools (dissemination) accessible to the greatest number of people".
A Senate report inOctober 2022 validated the refocusing of the IGN on public service data useful for the management of the ecological transition and called on the IGN to strengthen its partnership with communities.
The IGN strengthens its ties with local communities through Geocommunes
Since the law n° 2015-991 of August 7, 2015 on the new territorial organization of the Republic, known as the "Notre law", the regions have seen their competences reinforced in terms of geographic information. Each region is now responsible for ensuring "the coordination, through a digital services platform that it runs, of the acquisition and updating of reference geographic data necessary for the detailed description of its territory as well as for the observation and evaluation of its territorial policies, data which it promotes access to and reuse," observes a Senate report devoted to the National Institute of Geographic and Forestry Information (IGN).
The regions have become the strategic drivers of geographic information policy. In parallel with the rise of the regions, the major cities are also devoting more and more resources to geolocalized information. Some pioneering cities such as Nice, Bordeaux, Lyon, Rennes and Strasbourg have particularly strong ambitions in this area.
Geocommons" and the Geoplatform program at the heart of the IGN's repositioning.
In 2019, the IGN has undertaken to transform itself and redesign its model. " From a mission of production-distribution of geographic information, the IGN is evolving towards the roles of data aggregator, expert, coordinator or certifier. It is refocusing its action on the production of sovereign base data as well as on the management of vast projects to support major public policies directly financed by their sponsors.
The "Geocommons" concept and the geoplatform program are thus at the heart of the IGN's repositioning. Intended to take over from the current geoportal, the geoplatform should constitute a shared infrastructure for the management and distribution of geographic information. However, Senator Vincent Capo-Canellas observes that there isstill a long way to go. He notes that, in addition to its own resources for updating various layers of the large-scale reference system (RGE), the IGN now aggregates data collected by partners, mainly from the public sphere. "A collaborative space that prefigures the geoplatform allows the IGN to collect data collected by the departmental fire and rescue services (SDIS), surveyors, local authorities or natural parks.
After outlining the prospect of a single cadastre between the tax authorities and the IGN, and reviewing the project for a single cadastral parcel representation (RPCU) and the simplified street plan (PCRS), Senator Vincent Capo-Canellas called for " strengthening and formalizing the IGN's collaborations with the local sector" and emphasized, in conclusion, " the importance for France of having a sovereign geographic reference institution such as the IGN to support prevention policies.
Référence :
The Geoplatform, future public space for geographic information
The Geoplatform program aims to provide public authorities with a collaborative and shared infrastructure for the production and dissemination of geodata. Its ambition is to allow public policy makers and local authorities who wish to do so to benefit very simply from advanced functionalities to disseminate their own data and open up to contributing communities. This future space, a geographic component of the State-platform recognized as a major digital project of the StateThis future space, a geographic component of the State-platform recognized as a major digital project of the State, responds in particular to the challenges of sovereignty of State data in the face of the Internet giants.
The IGN points out four issues
Build an open and shared platform dedicated to geographic information and contributing to the deployment of the State-platform,
Organize the collaborative mechanism for the maintenance and enrichment of geographic data within the public sphere,
Build an ecosystem of users; equip, support and connect existing communities,
To propose a new robust infrastructure that will ensure the recovery of existing services of the IGN and its partners; to optimize the access path to these resources and to offer complementary functionalities.
The total cost of the project is estimated at 21.5 M€. The Geoplatform, winner of the 2nd call for projects of the Fonds pour la transformation de l'action publique (FTAP), has received 3.6 M€ in funding. The rest of the funding is supported by the IGN.