Outlines of the EPCI 2015

Geographical contours of the EPCI resulting from the crossing of the communal boundaries of OpenStreetMap and data from the General Directorate of Local Authorities dating from 2015.

These data are partly from the crowdsourcing carried out by the contributors to the OpenStreetMap project and are therefore under ODbL license which imposes an identical sharing and the mandatory attribution mention must be "© the contributors of OpenStreetMap under ODbL license" in accordance with http://osm.org/copyright

Description of the contents of the "epci" files

Origin of data

The data come from the Directorate General of Local Authorities (DGCL) crossed with the municipal division from the OpenStreetMap map database.
These were created from the cadastre made available by the DGFiP on cadastre.gouv.fr.

Source for EPCI 2015: http://www.collectivites-locales.gouv.fr/liste-et-composition-2015

Format

These files are offered in shapefile format, in WGS84 projection with several levels of detail:

• simplification at 5m
• simplification at 50m
• simplification to 100m

The topology is retained during the simplification process (see: http://openstreetmap.fr/blogs/cquest/administrative-simplified limits)

Content

These files contain all the EPCI contained in the DGCL file (see "Origin of data").

The following attributes are provided:

• siren_epci: SIREN code assigned by INSEE to EPCI (source Min. Intérieur)
• name_epci: name of EPCI (source Min. Intérieur)
• ptot_epci: total population of the EPCI (source Min. Intérieur)
• nb_comm: number of municipalities in the EPCI
• surf_km2: EPCI area in km2 on the spheroid WGS84 (rounded per hectare before simplification)
• short_name: Abbreviated name (source OSM)
• wikipedia: Wikipedia article about EPCI (language code + article name, example: "en:Community of communes of Larmont")
• web: EPCI website (source OSM)
• osm_id: OSM relationship ID at time of export
• name_osm: EPCI name in OSM
• type_epci: EPCI type (OSM source)

History

• 20-12-2013: first generation of the file, based on the OSM municipal division at 19-12-2013
• 12-02-2014: second generation of the file with the EPCI 2014, and municipal division OSM of 19-12-2013
• 13-02-2014: addition of web, wikipedia and osm_id fields
• 06-03-2014: third generation of the file with the EPCI 2014 and the municipal division OSM at 06-03-2014
• 06-03-2014: addition of OpenStreetMap name and EPCI type
• 03-03-2014: fourth generation of the file with the EPCI 2015 and the municipal division OSM at 01-01-2015

Previous versions available at: http://osm13.openstreetmap.fr/~cquest/openfla/export/

For any questions regarding these exports, you can contact exports@openstreetmap.fr

See also:

• Contours des EPCI 2014
• Contours des communes françaises
• Contours des arrondissements français
• Contours des départements français et Cartes SVG des départements
• Contours de régions françaises
• Contours of future regions