IGN

Presentation

The National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) is a public body under the supervision of the ministries responsible for ecology and forestry. Its purpose is to produce and distribute reference data (open data) and representations (online and paper maps, geovisualisation) relating to knowledge of the national territory and French forests, as well as their evolution. Through its engineering school, ENSG-Géomatique, and its research teams, the institute cultivates a potential for high-level innovation in multiple fields (geodesy, forestry, photogrammetry, artificial intelligence, spatial analysis, 3D visualisation, etc.).

IGN employs nearly 1,500 people in all regions of France.

IGN's support activities focus on the definition, implementation and evaluation of public policies. The Institute supports numerous ministries, government operators and local and regional authorities.
It helps them to have access to data describing the territory and the phenomena that occur there, as well as cutting-edge tools for querying the data in order to facilitate public decision-making in the territories and the implementation of policies in various fields.

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Projects / Use Cases

Main projects over 2016-2017

IGN was involved in sub-activity 4.7 related to the provision of updates to ITS spatial road data.
IGN’s intervention proposal concerned:

  • A test of the existing service provided by the IGN BDUNI V1 database for the road network, with a daily update and a limited set of attributes (road axis, number of lanes, one-way street, administrative identification, etc.).
  • Implementation of the translation/conversion of the IGN BDUNI model to the TN-ITS model (ROSATTE), implemented as a service available for testing.
  • A plan for integrating future information sources (road signs, POIs, etc.) into the architecture of the French EIP service, describing the organisational aspects and the network and server infrastructure.

TN ITS GO project (2018-2021)

Following on from the EI-EUP project, the following objectives were set for the TN ITS GO project:

  • Develop, for each country, an appropriate service for providing “static” traffic information, based on a standardised data exchange format derived from the standardisation work of the ROSATTE project. This work has since been taken up and updated by the European standardisation committee CEN/TC 278.
  • Have the two map suppliers involved in the project evaluate the services by testing the integration of the data in their databases. A system of iterative loops between the map suppliers and the countries has been put in place to make the necessary adjustments to the services developed.

IGN contributed to the following work:

  • Drafting of annual progress reports,
  • Deploying and enhancing (in particular adding speed limits, traffic restrictions, car park entrances and exits) the TN-ITS GO service,
  • Evaluation of the service.

InDiD project (2019-2023)
InDiD (Digital Infrastructure of Tomorrow) is a project to deploy and test a complete digital infrastructure in the field of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) on road trial sites.
The InDiD project is a logical continuation of the European SCOOP@F, C-ROADS France and InterCor projects.

IGN is responsible for leading WG 2.7.2 on HD mapping aspects. It is also in charge of supplying the experimental HD mapping dataset for the autonomous crossing of the Fleury toll plaza POC.
IGN is the French liaison in the discussions of the WG5 working group in the C-Roads platform.

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Generic contacts - services

Frédéric Bonniot
Partnership and Institutional Relations Officer
Transport & Mobility Department
Programmes and Public Policy Support Department
Frederic.bonniot@ign.fr