Our approach

Doing it together is what makes a republic

Through regular publications, a podcast and one major annual day - Map Day - we make visible the essential role of cartography as a power to understand, decide and act together on the future of the places we live in.

Our mission

Revealing the power of maps as a lever for democracy, so that everyone can take hold of them, see the world differently, spark debate and help decide the future of the places we live in.

Our four ambitions

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Celebrating the diversity of uses

Finding your way, telling a story, managing a forest, defending a right, imagining a territory: topographic, statistical, historical, subjective or artistic maps - celebrating that richness.

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Inventing new maps

Inventing the forms of writing we still lack to make this century's great questions legible: counter-cartographies, participatory maps made with residents.

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Strengthening the sovereignty of our maps

Reducing our dependence on Big Tech, which imposes a commercial and uniform vision of the world - through geographic commons and European alternatives.

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Bringing in more people

From children to decision-makers, widening the coalition to go from 115 to 1,000 events at Map Day 2027, compared with the first edition.

How we work

Through our 5 levers of action, we create spaces to meet, to learn and to make maps, all across France.

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One day a year

Map Day

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A shared banner

To gather under and make your own

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Ready-to-use resources

Workshops, exhibitions, guides

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A podcast

The voices of cartography

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A publications strand

Analyses, advocacy, a white paper - coming soon

On the first Wednesday of February, take part in Map Day

The high point of our work is “Map Day”, a nationwide event held every first Wednesday of February, to celebrate and reinvent cartography.

La République des Cartes