With Cartes.gouv.fr, France Launches Its Sovereign Google Maps, and It Is Much More Complete than We Think
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In the face of Google Maps' hegemony, IGN officially launches Cartes.gouv.fr, a free public service that relies on raw data and the protection of privacy. Forget about restaurants and real-time traffic; here we speak cadastre, relief at the nearest centimeter and aerial photographs of formidable precision.
The famous Geoportail is about to take its reverence. It now brings together its services on maps.gouv.fr, a unique, modernised and mobile platform, which is positioned as a sovereign and collaborative alternative to Google Maps and Street View. You used to consult the cadastre,
The Geoportail is twenty years old. Two decades during which the IGN made its maps available to the French, but in a corner of the web that the majority never really used.
The French National Geographic Institute (IGN) is opening cartes.gouv.fr, its free French alternative to Google Maps, to the public. The Géoportail website, however, will close in September. [Read more] Subscribe to Frandroid on Google so you don't miss any articles!
You open Google Maps to check a route. Google records your location, destination, travel speed and habits. 69% of French people know this, according to an Ipsos BVA poll commissioned by IGN in May 2026. And 56% say it bothers them. Maps.gouv.fr arrives with a promise to know the same [...]
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