Regional redundancies project

Draft recasting of the regions proposed on 2 June 2014.

Exports of French administrative division at regional level (regions) from OpenStreetMap produced in the vast majority from the cadastre.

This data comes from crowdsourcing carried out by the contributors to the OpenStreetMap project and is under ODbL license which requires identical sharing and the mandatory attribution mention must be “© OpenStreetMap contributors under ODbL license” in accordance with http://osm.org/copyright

This is a semi-automatic export with lighter and topologically verified geometries (no overlap).

Descriptive of the contents of “regions” files

Origin

The data comes from the OpenStreetMap cartographic database.
These were established from the cadastre made available by DGFiP on cadastre.gouv.fr.
In addition on Mayotte where the cadastre is not available on cadastre.gouv.fr, the route of the coasts was made from the aerial images of Bing.

More info: http://openstreetmap.fr/36680-communes

Format

These files are offered in shapefile format, in WGS84 projection simplification at 100 m.

The topology is retained during the simplification process (see: http://openstreetmap.fr/blogs/cquest/limites-administratives-simplifiees)

Content

These files contain all (future) French regions, including the DOM and Mayotte.

Historical

— 03-06-2014: first generation of the file, based on OSM communal cutting at 06-03-2014

— 27-02-2015: definitively adopted version.

If you have any questions about these exports, you can contact exports@openstreetmap.fr

See also:

— API request “live”
— cards in SVG format
— contours of the French municipalities
— contours of EPCI 2014
and Contours des EPCI 2013
— contours of the French arrondissements
— contours of the French departments and SVG maps of the departments