The BDCOM (or Base de Données des Commerces) is a triennial address-based census of all Parisian ground-floor premises with a shop window and access to the public space, including premises in a commercial concentration.
In addition to the data already published on the Apur open data platform (see links 2017 and 2020), the census of Parisian businesses proposed here is the result of a field survey carried out by the Apur in June 2023 with some twenty surveyors who criss-crossed all Parisian thoroughfares and verified (updated) and recorded in a structured database (83,154 premises, including 60,845 shops and commercial services), 103 commercial concentrations.
In addition to the precise location of each business (on the street, in the courtyard of a building, in a commercial concentration or on a street corner), the investigators also recorded the activity using a multi-level nomenclature (in 224, 47, 18, 8 or 2 items, depending on the desired grouping: https://www.apur.org/open_data/BDCOM_2023_OD.xlsx), as well as an assessment of the surface area of the commercial premises.
Technical details
Items
- Identifier and location: district, neighborhood, Iris number, street number, street type, street name, location of commercial premises (on street, in building courtyard, in commercial concentration, etc.).
- Type of commercial premises: shop, workshop, office...
- Commercial activity code: 224, 47, 18, 13 or 6-item activity code to classify types of business.
- Surface area of commercial premises: less than 300m², from 300 to 1000m², more than 1000m².
Sources
Previous BDCOM and field survey carried out by Apur in June 2023 by some twenty surveyors.
License and usage limits
BDCOM data is updated approximately every 3 years.
The dataset is licensed under the ODbL (Open Database License). This license grants you the following freedoms:
- Share: copy, distribute and use the database.
- Create: produce derivative creations from this database.
- Adapt: modify, transform and build from this database.
However, these freedoms come with the following obligations:
- Credit the source (Apur) appropriately.
- Share any improvements or modifications to this dataset under the same conditions (ODbL).
Avant tout usage, il est conseillé de prendre connaissance de la licence et des limites d’usages précisé ici : https://www.apur.org/open_data/resume_licence_ODbl.pdf
Call to action
Explore detailed data on Parisian commerce from our open data platform and download datasets to find out more.
Data is available in several formats (including GIS): KML, CSV, GeoJSON or Shapefile. Or via direct API resources (GeoService, GeoJSON).
Data reuse
Should you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: data@apur.org
We also welcome contributions and feedback that could improve the quality and usefulness of this dataset.
If you reuse this data in your projects (see ODbL license paragraph), we'd love to hear from you. Please inform us of your reuse so that we can communicate on these initiatives and enrich our collective understanding of commerce in Paris. Your feedback is invaluable in helping us to continually improve the quality and accessibility of our data.
