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title: "France Cadastre | Schema"
description: "Tileset containing cadastral layers, parcel information, buildings, etc."
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# France Cadastre schema

The vector tile schema describes how the vector data is organized into different thematic layers and which attribute and values each layer contains. This is useful for writing a map style.

France Cadastral is a tileset containing real estate cadastre information for France. Design of tileset containing the most useful information like parcel, buildings and their numbers, or addresses. Tileset provides the most precise geometry (low scale mapping) with additional information for interconnecting with authorities.

Nevertheless, this Tileset cannot be used for any legal action and in any legal case please contact the competent authority.

Explore the tileset in the interactive map viewer, check the date of the last update, use it as vector tiles, etc.

[Go to France Cadastre](https://cloud.maptiler.com/tiles/fr-cadastre/)

## Definition of layers

The France Cadastre tileset contains the following layers:

## batiments [#](#batiments)

Polygons of the buildings.

### Fields

#### commune

Commune code.

#### created

Date of data creation.

#### nom

Name of the building.

#### type

Type of the building. `01` for `bâtiment dur` , `02` for `bâtiment léger`.

Possible values:

-   `01`
-   `02`

#### updated

Date of data update.

## parcelles [#](#parcelles)

The main part of the cadastral map defines areas and owners.

### Fields

#### id

Parcel ID defined by the responsible party.

#### numero

A parcel name is often just a number defined by the responsible party.

#### arpente

Marks whether the parcel has been surveyed.  
Possible values:

-   `false`
-   `true`

#### commune

Commune code.

#### created

Date of data creation.

#### prefixe

Prefix

#### section

Section ID.

#### updated

Date of data update.

#### contenance

Parcel area.

## sections [#](#sections)

Sections.

### Fields

#### id

Section ID defined by the responsible party.

#### code

Code.

#### commune

Commune code.

#### created

Date of data creation.

#### prefixe

Prefix code.

#### updated

Date of data update.

## License

With the use of this API, you must visibly credit these attributions:

[© MapTiler](https://www.maptiler.com/copyright/) [© Etalab](https://cadastre.data.gouv.fr/datasets/cadastre-etalab)