The Apur offers two sets of complementary data for observing and analysing these facilities at the level of Paris and the Greater Paris Metropolitan Area:
- Equipment rights-of-way, which represent the surface area occupied by the equipment, in relation to its function and manager.
- One-off facilities, which precisely locate a facility at an address, with information on its nature or status (public/private).
Unlike rights of way, they can also be used to reference ground floor facilities (premises)
This data is regularly used in Apur studies, for example to map the supply of facilities in neighbourhoods undergoing urban renewal, to analyse their accessibility in deprived areas, or to produce territorial portraits at different scales. In particular, they have been used in the ‘Public facilities and services 2030’ study, which explores future transformations in the production and management of facilities on a metropolitan scale, or as part of the territorial portrait of Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre (EPT 12), in order to shed light on local development dynamics.
Together, these data enable us to study the presence and distribution of facilities in space, their accessibility from living areas, their density by sector and their integration into urban centres. It provides an invaluable basis for territorial diagnostics, urban planning and inter-municipal comparisons, and can be cross-referenced with other layers of information available in open data.
Technical details
The two datasets - facility rights-of-way and point facilities - offer complementary variables that can be used to describe the nature, location and certain functional or statutory characteristics of the facilities.
Main variables for equipment rights-of-way (surface representation)
- Equipment name
- Category: functional category (education, health, sport, culture, etc.), according to a three-level nomenclature (20 level 1 categories, 79 level 2 categories, 352 level 3 categories). For example, for a detailed level (level 3) of a ‘Nursery school’, the corresponding intermediate level (level 2) will be ‘Primary education’, and the most general level (level 1) will be ‘Teaching and education’.
- Centrality: indicator of the territorial influence of the facility (level of local or supra-local influence).
For more technical information, please consult the detailed sheet on the Geocatalogue.
Main variables for point equipment (representation in points)
• Name and address of equipment
• Category: functional category based on a detailed three-level nomenclature.
• Status and manager: Status (public or private) and category of entity in charge of the facility (State, inter-municipality, local authority, etc.).
• Year of commissioning (partial information)
• Specific indicators by category: (partial information). For example, for schools, capacity, whether the school is in a ZEP or REP, etc.
For more technical information, please consult the detailed sheet on the Geocatalogue.
Data source and genealogy :
Data on rights of way and one-off facilities comes from a variety of sources, depending on whether it concerns Paris or the rest of the Greater Paris Metropolitan Area.
For Paris, the main sources used are the Apur, the Direction générale des finances publiques (DGFiP) and the City of Paris. The geometry of the rights of way is derived from the cadastral map (DGFiP), the STDF parcel map, the administrative atlas and arrondissement maps. These data are supplemented by inventories carried out by the Apur, data from municipal departments (DPA, DJS, DEVE, DASCO, DAC), official municipal bulletins (BMO), the paris.fr website, and aerial photographs (2005-2024).
For municipalities outside Paris, the sources vary depending on the area: Val-de-Marne Departmental Council, cadastral files for Hauts-de-Seine, land parcel databases for Seine-Saint-Denis, municipal maps or guides, or field surveys (particularly around the Grand Paris Express station areas), supplemented for equipment rights-of-way by Open Street Map data. Updates are gradual and targeted, depending on the themes and areas monitored by the Apur.
Licence and conditions of use
Before any use, you are invited to read and accept the terms of the ODbL licence and the limits of use specified here: https://www.apur.org/open_data/resume_licence_ODbl.pdf
Reuse of data
If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us at the following address: data@apur.org
We welcome your feedback and contributions to enrich these datasets.
