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Constraints

The constraints a consultancy checks first: Natura 2000 (the basis of the impact assessment), nature reserves, biotope orders, ZNIEFFs, classified sites, historic monument surroundings and PPR flood perimeters. It does not include each PPR's detailed regulatory zoning or the PLU rules: consult the planning document for buildability.

17 layers

Nature and reserves

The protected natural spaces network: Natura 2000, the réserves naturelles (nationales, régionales, de Corse), the protection orders, the national parks with their cores, the regional and marine nature parks, the Ramsar sites and the wetlands.

29 layers

Natural hazards

The risk prevention plan perimeters (flood, ground movement, forest fire, avalanche, marine submersion, technological and mining), the underground cavities, the recorded ground movements, the seismic zoning and the polluted-soil sectors. Each PPR's precise regulatory zoning remains in the document itself.

23 layers

Water

The water zonings: abstraction catchments, sensitive areas, water-scarcity zones, SAGE perimeters, watercourses classified for ecological continuity and flow obstacles.

10 layers

Heritage

Classified sites, Grands Sites de France, historic monument surroundings, remarkable heritage sites, World Heritage properties, geoparks and geological heritage: the landscape and built-heritage protections that weigh on a permit.

11 layers

Getting outdoors

Walking routes, national and regional parks, Grands Sites, public forests and fish-ecology contexts: the base map for a day outdoors, on the mainland and in Corsica alike.

11 layers

Renouvelables

The constraints analysis of a wind or solar project: acceleration zones and excluded zonings (APER law), existing farms and turbines, high-voltage lines, nuclear installations, with Natura 2000, ZNIEFF and wetlands for the environmental stakes.

13 layers

Planning

What the planning document says: PLU zoning, cartes communales, RNU communes, PPR zonings and wetlands annexed to PLUs, classified woodland areas.

14 layers

Layer by layer

Designations · 35

NATURA 2000

NATURE RESERVES

BIOTOPE PROTECTION ORDERS

PARKS

LAND CONSERVATION

INVENTORIES

INTERNATIONAL

SITES AND LANDSCAPES

HERITAGE

NATURE

Habitats · 5

HABITAT MAPPING

WETLANDS

AGRICULTURE

FOREST

Access · 3

TRAILS

LITTORAL

SECOURS

Landscape · 58

NATURAL HAZARDS

WATER

FOREST

PLANNING

ÉNERGIES RENOUVELABLES

RISQUES TECHNOLOGIQUES

FONCIER

AGRICULTURE

Land-Based Schemes · 1

APPELLATIONS

Publishers

Every layer names its publisher and licence. These are the agencies behind this country.

PublishersThe layersLicence
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (INPN)29Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
Géoportail de l'urbanisme22Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
Géorisques (BRGM / Ministère de la Transition écologique)22Licence Ouverte
Sandre / OFB (eaufrance)9Licence Ouverte (Etalab) 2.0
IGN Géoplateforme9Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
ONF / IGN Géoplateforme2Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
OFB / portail cartographique des EnR2Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
INAO1Licence Ouverte
Cerema / GéoMCE1Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
SCHAPI / Vigicrues via IGN Géoplateforme1Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
ODR / INRAE via IGN Géoplateforme1Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
Cerema / portail cartographique des EnR1Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
DGFiP / IGN Géoplateforme (Parcellaire Express)1Licence Ouverte (Etalab)
ASP / IGN Géoplateforme (RPG)1Licence Ouverte (Etalab)

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