BPE is supplied by :

5 major directories:

• FINESS: national file of health and social establishments, Department of Health, Families, Independence, and People with Disabilities
• RPPS: shared repertory of health professionals, Department of Health, Families, Independence, and People with Disabilities
• SIRUS: registration system in the directory of statistical units, Insee
• RAMSESE: academic and ministerial repertory on the establishments of the education system, Department of Education
• Data ES: inventory of sports facilities, Department of Sports, Youth and the Voluntary Sector

17 administrative files:

• Gendarmerie, provided by the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie (DGGN), Ministry of the Interior
• Tourisme survey, Insee
• Agricultural education, provided by the Directorate General for Education and Research (DGER), Ministry of Agriculture, Agri-Food, and Food Sovereignty
• Justice, provided by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice
• La Poste
• France Travail
• Airports, provided by the Data and Statistical Studies Service (SDES), Ministry of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity, and International Climate and Nature Negotiations
• Train stations, provided by the Data and Statistical Studies Service (SDES), Ministry of Ecological Transition, Biodiversity, and International climate and nature Negotiations
• Culture, provided by the Department of Studies, Forecasting and Statistics (DEPS), Ministry of Culture
• Gas stations, data.gouv.fr
• National Family Allowance Fund (Cnaf)
• National Agency for territorial cohesion (ANCT)
• Police from the website masecurite.interieur.gouv.fr, Ministry of the Interior
• SINOE, (ADEME)
• Town halls, from the population census service, Insee
• Learning, (Onisep)
• Electric vehicle recharging facilities, data.gouv.fr

Annual

Request data from producers under agreements and receive data in files of various formats or download if open data.

From January to September, each year.

Not applicable

Not applicable

Data checks are carried out throughout the production process : comparisons with the previous year’s data, geolocation quality control, office checks, etc.

Geography 

The permanent database of facilities is available throughout France, including the overseas departments. The geographical reference of the database is the Official geographic code (COG) of the municipalities on January, 1st of the reference year.

The BPE is located in IRIS 2025.

In municipalities divided into arrondissements (Paris, Lyon and Marseille), the district has been chosen as the municipal level for locating facilities.

Most sources include the overseas departments and regions (DROM) excluding Mayotte starting in 2005 or when they were added to the BPE. The sources in question are La Poste, Finess, Adeli/RPPS, Ramsese, Apprentissage, Sirene/Sirus, Gendarmerie, Airport, Tourism, Data-ES, Justice, and Culture. Data on Mayotte from these sources were primarily included starting in 2012 and in subsequent years.

Some data sources include the 5 DROMs from the moment they were added to the BPE. These are Sinoe, France Travail, ANCT, and Mairie. Additional data sources fill in gaps, such as gas stations added to the 5 DROMs starting in 2021. However, some data sources do not yet have substitutes in the DROMs, such as EV charging stations or campgrounds.

Facilities georeferencing and geolocation

The georeferencing operations of the facilities contained in the BPE relate to all the municipalities of France except Mayotte and make it possible to provide the membership of the facilities with the zoning in iris and since the BPE 2021 with the zonings of the urban policy.

Since the 2013 BPE, work has been carried out to geolocate facilities.

Geolocation consists of assigning geographical coordinates (x, y) to an address which is then materialised by a point. Geolocation makes it possible to get rid of pre-existing zoning (municipalities or Iris). It therefore allows for more detailed spatial or territorial studies, with data independent of predefined zoning.

The projection systems used by INSEE to assign coordinates (x, y) are Lambert-93 (RGF93) for metropolitan France and UTM (Universal transverse Mercator) for the overseas departments (UTM40sud for Réunion, UTM20nord for Martinique and Guadeloupe, and UTM22nord for Guyana). Whatever system is used, these are not GPS coordinates.

From BPE 2023 onwards, in addition to the (x,y) coordinates described above, decimal GPS coordinates (coordinates system : WGS84 - EPSG 4326) will be integrated into the BPE.

These coordinates enable users to display all geolocated facilities in the BPE on the same map, regardless of their location in France except Mayotte and COM.

→ For more detailed information on projection systems, visit the IGN website.

The geolocation carried out by INSEE is based on a frame of reference built on the information contained : 

• in the address repertory (Repertory of localized buildings - RIL) used for the population census, mainly for municipalities of 10,000 inhabitants or more ;
• in tax files (repositories of cadastral addresses) for municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants.

Georeferencing and geolocation operations are performed in two stages:

• automatic processing of all BPE facilities.
• Manual processing carried out on :
  • an initial selection of equipment whose geographical coordinates (x, y) are considered to be of "poor" quality at the national level, and for some of them according to their place in the daily life basket. From an indicator measuring the proportion of equipment with a "Good" or "Acceptable" geolocation quality within each type of equipment, one selects :
    • on the one hand, equipment for which, within each type of equipment, this proportion is less than 83.5% at the national level.
    • on the other hand, equipment that belongs to the daily life basket, regardless of the quality level of the indicator.
  • A second selection focused on types equipment for which the geolocation rate can be optimized at the departmental level, while also belonging to the daily life basket.

Some data producers who supply the BPE geolocate the data they supply. Expert assessments are carried out to determine whether the quality of the suppliers' (x,y) coordinates is better than that of the coordinates provided by INSEE. In this case, the coordinates of the facilities concerned are injected directly into the BPE without any reprocessing by INSEE other than conversion into the projection systems used for the BPE.

Thus, the coordinates (x, y) made available for each piece of equipment are accompanied by a quality indicator which can take the following forms:

• good : the deviation of the coordinates (x, y) provided with the reality of the ground is less than 100 m;
• acceptable : the maximum deviation of the coordinates (x, y) provided with the reality of the ground is between 100 m and 500 m ;
• bad : the maximum deviation of the coordinates (x, y) provided with the reality of the ground is greater than 500 m and random imputations could be made ;
• Indeterminate : the maximum deviation of the coordinates (x,y) provided from the reality on the ground is unknown. The quality of the geolocation is sometimes also unknown.
• Not applicable (facility not geolocated) : the coordinates (x, y) are not available because the geolocation works were not successful for the equipment. Facilities of Mayotte and 1.8 % of sport facilities are concerned ;

Regarding the quality thresholds, INSEE does not guarantee total compliance with these : deviations from reality can be greater in a certain number of cases, and conversely, prove to be of better quality than the documentation does not indicate it.

Coordinate quality (x,y)

For the 2025 BPE categories, the distribution of equipment according to the quality of the coordinates (x, y) provided is established as follows:

• good quality : 82,7 %
• acceptable quality : 3.2 %
• poor quality : 6.4 %
• undefined quality : 7.3 % (coordinates of stations, airports, sports equipment and electric vehicle charging infrastructure are from data from producers)
• not geolocated : 0.4 % (Mahorais equipment and 1.8% of sports equipment)