Base Adresse Nationale

What Base Adresse Nationale does

Base Adresse Nationale (BAN) is France's official national address database, providing a standardized, authoritative reference of all known addresses on French territory. It is operated by DINUM (Direction Interministérielle du Numérique) under the French government as a public-service open-data product, distributed through the data.gouv.fr platform and a dedicated address.data.gouv.fr portal that exposes lookup and geocoding APIs. The dataset is licensed for free reuse under a homologated license dated 29 May 2019 and sits within a broader ecosystem of 75,000 datasets, 389,000 files, and 6,000 publishing organizations, including INSEE, IGN, the Ministry of the Interior, Météo-France, ADEME, and Santé publique France.

The underlying platform is built on the open-source udata engine (version 17.0.7) with a cdata front-end layer, and the site extends into thematic sub-portals covering ecology, transport, meteorology, culture, logistics, and simplification of administrative processes, plus derived data products such as the DVF immobilier explorer and Annuaire des Entreprises. The platform serves a broad horizontal audience — citizens, journalists (Le Monde, Libération), large technology users (Google Maps), nonprofits (Wikimedia Foundation), and government agencies — through self-serve digital access with 79,000 registered users and approximately 5,000 documented reuse cases. As a non-commercial government entity, BAN generates no revenue: all data and APIs are provided free of charge, with operations funded through the French state's digital budget under DINUM's oversight.

Name

Base Adresse Nationale

Legal name

Base Adresse Nationale (BAN)

Website

https://data.gouv.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Base Adresse Nationale (BAN) is France's official national address database, operated by DINUM as a free open-data public service, distributed via data.gouv.fr and a dedicated geocoding API, and serving citizens, government agencies, journalists, and developers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Free public access to open data: data.gouv.fr and the Base Adresse Nationale are provided free of charge to all users. The platform is operated by DINUM (Direction Interministérielle du Numérique) as a public service mission. There is no commercial revenue generation; the platform operates as a government-provided digital public service funded through the French state's digital budget.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Base Adresse Nationale (BAN) is France's official national address database providing standardized geographic address data for the entire French territory. It is published and distributed through the data.gouv.fr open data platform, offering free public access to a reference address dataset along with geocoding APIs and address lookup tools. The platform is operated by DINUM (Direction Interministérielle du Numérique) as part of France's open government data infrastructure.

Product overview

Base Adresse Nationale (BAN) is France's official national address database. It is a single core product that provides standardized geographic address data for the entire French territory. The BAN data is published and distributed through the data.gouv.fr open data platform and is subject to a specific free use licence that has been homologated by the French government.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Base Adresse Nationale (BAN) France's official national address database providing standardized geographic address data for the entire French territory. Licensed for free use under a homologated license and accessible via the adresse.data.gouv.fr portal and geocoding APIs for government agencies, businesses, developers, and citizens.
• data.gouv.fr Open Data Platform France's central open data portal operated by DINUM, hosting 75K datasets and APIs, 389K files, and 6K publishing organizations. Provides free public access to open government data under the Licence Ouverte 2.0.

Quantifiable outcome

• 75K datasets and APIs available on the platform
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered infrastructure, core and minor.

• OVH SASinfrastructureOthersOVH SAS provides cloud hosting services for data.gouv.fr. Located at 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France. OVH is a major European cloud infrastructure provider.
• DINUM (Direction Interministérielle du Numérique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDINUM is the publishing entity responsible for data.gouv.fr and the Base Adresse Nationale. Madame Stéphanie SCHAER serves as Directrice de la DINUM and publication director. DINUM oversees the platform's mission as a public interest open data service.
• IGN (Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIGN is the national geographic and forest information institute. IGN has a specific homologated license for its geographic products (BD ORTHO, BD TOPO, BD PARCELLAIRE, BD ADRESSE, RGE ALTI) which are related to the BAN address data. IGN's BD ADRESSE product is closely linked to the BAN.
• BrevominorOthersBrevo provides email newsletter delivery services for data.gouv.fr. Headquartered in France. Used to send the platform's email newsletter to subscribers.
• CrispminorOthersCrisp provides customer support functionality (user support chat) for data.gouv.fr. Based in France and Germany.
• TallyminorOthersTally provides form-building services for data.gouv.fr. Based in Belgium.
• Empreinte DigitaleminorOthersEmpreinte Digitale provides error tracking/monitoring services for data.gouv.fr. Based in France.
• Ministry of the InteriorcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Ministry of the Interior is a major data producer on data.gouv.fr, publishing electoral data (presidential, legislative, municipal elections), national registry data, and security-related datasets. Key partner in providing foundational public data.
• INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerINSEE is the French national statistics institute and a major data publisher on data.gouv.fr. INSEE publishes demographic, economic, census, and business registry data (Sirene) that complements the BAN address database.
• Météo-FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMétéo-France produces meteorological and climatological data published on meteo.data.gouv.fr, a thematic sub-portal of the data.gouv.fr ecosystem. This partnership extends the platform's reach into environmental data.
• ADEME (Agence de la Transition Écologique)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerADEME publishes environmental data on ecologie.data.gouv.fr, contributing datasets related to greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, waste, and ecological transition metrics.
• Santé publique FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSanté publique France (SPF) publishes public health datasets on data.gouv.fr, including COVID-19 data, health indicators, and epidemiological statistics.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• OpenAddresses: Open-source, open-license project aggregating authoritative address data globally from government sources. Most direct peer at the dataset layer for BAN, since both seek to provide a free, comprehensive address reference compiled from official sources.
• OpenStreetMap: Collaborative open geographic database including street-level addresses, geocoding, and POIs. Competes for the same developer and civic-tech audience as BAN's address/geocoding services under an open-data philosophy.
• GeoNames: Open, licensed geographic database of place names and locations available via free and premium APIs. Comparable to BAN as an open reference dataset for location/geocoding use cases, though broader in geographic and feature scope.
• Data.gov.uk: UK national open data portal providing a single catalog of UK government datasets under open licenses. Same horizontal open-data positioning and target user base as BAN's parent platform, making it a close functional peer.
• European Data Portal (data.europa.eu): Official EU-level open data portal explicitly linked from data.gouv.fr. Operates as a federated layer over national open data portals including France's, sharing the same open-licensing philosophy and acting as a direct counterpart at the supranational level.
• Data.gov (United States): US federal open data portal operated by the GSA. Most comparable in mission (centralizing government open data, providing APIs and reuse tools) and architecture (CKAN-based) to France's data.gouv.fr, making it a direct international peer.

Broad incumbents

• Mapbox: Developer-focused commercial mapping and geocoding platform. Comparable to BAN on the developer/API distribution layer and competes for the same location-aware application builders, while bundling commercial services on top of open data.
• Google Maps Platform: Google's commercial geocoding, mapping, and Places API. Confirmed consumer of data.gouv.fr data; competes with BAN for developer mindshare in geocoding and location services, but offers a much broader commercial product portfolio.
• HERE Technologies: Major commercial mapping and geocoding provider offering APIs and enterprise location services. Overlaps directly with BAN's geocoding value proposition but serves as a broader incumbent in commercial geocoding, navigation, and logistics.

Others

• IGN (Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière): France's national geographic and forestry information institute, listed as a core partner via its BD ADRESSE product which directly links to BAN. Operates complementary, more detailed geographic datasets under its own homologated licenses, making it both an upstream contributor and an adjacent provider.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights1 record

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/BasesAdressesLocales

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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