National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information

Member information

National name	Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière (IGN)
English spelling	National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN France)
Member status	Full
Founded	1940
Legal status	Public establishment with administrative character and legal personality
Responsible ministry/organisation	Ministry for an ecological and solidary transition and Ministry for agriculture and food
Number of staff	1564
Annual budget, €millions	177
% state funding	52

2025: Using geospatial expertise to turn biomass policy ambition into action

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2024: Creating a Digital Twin of France and its territories to address 21st century challenges

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2020: ‘Geo-common’ strategy supports major Lidar and land use projects in France

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2019: An observatory for reliable monitoring of soil artificialisation

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Head of organisation	Mr. Sébastien Soriano
Permanent correspondent	Clément Godin
Postal address	73 avenue de Paris 94165 Saint-Mandé Cedex France
Website	http://www.ign.fr

Geodetic survey	Yes
Topographic mapping	Yes
Cadastre	No
Land registration	No
Military mapping	Yes
Thematic mapping	Yes
Hydrographic mapping	Yes
Aerial photography	Yes
Satellite imagery	Yes
Marine mapping	No
Metrology	Yes
e-Government	Yes
National Spatial Data Infrastructure	Yes

Cadastral Portal
Geoportal	https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/
Positioning Service	http://rgp.ign.fr/?#
NSDI Portal	https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do;jsessionid=6C327D840270DEE125191F1EBF88073D.tpdjo03v_2?idSectionTA=LEGISCTA000022964018&cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006074220&dateTexte=20101129
Portal distributing IGN software	https://geoservices.ign.fr/catalogue
Platform to contribute to the National Address Database	https://mes-adresses.data.gouv.fr/
Collaborative platform	https://espacecollaboratif.ign.fr/
Platform to create and share personalised maps	https://macarte.ign.fr/

L’Espace Professionnel

Addresses	Yes
Cadastre	Yes
Land Registration	No
Land Information	No
Topographic Maps	Yes
Historical Maps	Yes
Nautical Charts and Services	No
Orthophotos	Yes
Satellite Imagery	Yes
Other	Lidar, LPIS, DEM, Land Cover/Land Use, Forestry and Hedgerow, Geodesy and Levelling
Other	Thematic portals and observatories (town planning, forestry, renewable energies, land artificialisation…), consultancy, expertise, training and education