Legal notice

Only the French version of this legal notice is legally binding. This English translation is provided for information only.

In accordance with French Act no. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy, users of this site are informed of the identity of the parties involved in its creation and upkeep.

1. Site publisher

Name: La République des Cartes

Collective led by:IGN - French national institute of geographic and forest information

Registered office:73 avenue de Paris, 94165 Saint-Mandé Cedex, France

Legal form:Public administrative establishment

SIRET no.: 180 060 040 00144

Telephone: +33 (0)1 43 98 80 00

2. Publication director

Nom : Sébastien SORIANO

Position:Director general of IGN

3. Site host

Company: Clever Cloud

Registered office:4 rue Voltaire, 44000 Nantes, France

RCS :Nantes B 524 172 699

Share capital: 142 627 €

Website: www.clever-cloud.com

4. Intellectual property

This site as a whole is subject to French and international copyright and intellectual property law. All reproduction rights are reserved, including for downloadable documents and for iconographic and photographic material.

Reproduction of all or part of this site on any electronic medium whatsoever is strictly prohibited without the express authorisation of the publication director.

The trademarks mentioned on this site are registered by the companies that own them.

5. Personal data protection

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the French Data Protection Act, you have the right to access, rectify, erase and object to the personal data concerning you.

Data controller:IGN - French national institute of geographic and forest information

Data protection officer (DPO):

Email: dpo@ign.fr

Address: IGN - DPO, 73 avenue de Paris, 94165 Saint-Mandé Cedex, France

To exercise your rights, or for any question about how your data is processed here, you may contact our DPO.

If, after contacting us, you consider that your data protection rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint online with the CNIL, the French data protection authority.

6. Cookies

The site may automatically collect standard information. All information collected indirectly will be used only to monitor the volume, type and configuration of traffic to this site, to develop its design and layout, for other administrative and planning purposes, and more generally to improve the service we offer you.

This information will not be used for any purpose other than those stated above.

7. Limitation of liability

The information on this site is as accurate as possible and the site is updated periodically, but it may nonetheless contain inaccuracies, omissions or gaps.

If you notice a gap, an error or what appears to be a malfunction, please report it by email, describing the problem as precisely as you can.

IGN and the collective La République des Cartes cannot be held liable for the use or interpretation of the information contained on this site.

8. Hyperlinks

The site may contain hyperlinks to other sites on the Internet. Following those links takes you away from www.republiquecartes.fr

A link to this site's presentation page may be created without the express authorisation of the PUBLISHER. No authorisation or prior request for information may be required by the publisher of a site wishing to link to it.

9. Governing law

This legal notice is governed by French law and subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the publisher's registered office, save where a specific jurisdiction is assigned by a particular law or regulation.

10. Credits

Design and development:La République des Cartes technical team

Graphic design: Agence NoDesign

Technologies used: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

11. Contact

For any question about this site or its content, please use the contact form at the bottom of the page.

Postal address:

La République des Cartes
c/o IGN
73 avenue de Paris
94165 Saint-Mandé Cedex
France

Last updated: September 2025

La République des Cartes