Open Places API

Coverage

Places API for France.

2,164,599 places in France, searchable with one GET request. From Paris arrondissements to village squares, with accent-insensitive search included.

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One request away.

Search "boulangerie" near Paris (48.8566, 2.3522) and get JSON back: names, coordinates, categories, structured addresses, and distances in miles. 

curl -G "https://api.openplacesapi.com/v1/places" \
  --data-urlencode "q=boulangerie" \
  --data-urlencode "lat=48.8566" \
  --data-urlencode "lon=2.3522" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPEN_PLACES_API_KEY"

Coordinates to try: Paris 48.8566, 2.3522 · Lyon 45.764, 4.8357 · Marseille 43.2965, 5.3698

What you can build with it.

Travel & itinerary apps

Surface food, sights, and services around hotels and route points across France.

"What's nearby" features

Real estate, delivery zones, and store finders: anything that asks what's near a coordinate.

AI agents

Give an agent real France places instead of hallucinated ones. See the agent guide.

France coverage FAQ.

Does Open Places API cover France?

Yes. 2,164,599 places in France are searchable today. Density, freshness, and field completeness vary by location.

Where does the France place data come from?

From the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset: open data backed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom. Open Places API follows Overture's monthly release cycle.

Can I add my own places in France?

Yes. Account-owned layers let you add private records, correct base data, and suppress places, merged into every search your API keys make, on top of or instead of the Overture base.

What does it cost?

Plans are flat with hard caps: free for 10,000 searches a month, $19 for 30,000, $49 for 100,000, $249 for 1 million. When you hit the cap the API returns a 402 and stops. It never bills an overage.

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Spotlights are editorial deep dives, not the edge of coverage. The API is global wherever the current Overture release has Places data; the coverage page has the full inventory.