The platform

The machinery behind the map.

One platform indexes, organizes, and serves government information across 200+ countries: a registry of every mapped entity, a crawler that reads what each one publishes, and the pipelines that hand the same map to people as pages and to software as data.

Explore the platform

Seven pieces, and how they fit.

Start anywhere. Each page covers one piece and links the others where they meet.

The indexLIVE

Atlas Registry

330,000+ government entities across 200+ countries, from US special districts to French communes and Japanese prefectures, each with a stable Atlas ID cross-referenced to GeoNames, Wikidata, OCD, and FIPS, plus hierarchies, boundaries, and contact information.

The collectorLIVE

Web Crawler

A polite, respectful web crawler that discovers and indexes open records from government websites while respecting robots.txt and server resources.

The designLIVE

Architecture

How the pieces fit together: data pipelines, storage systems, search infrastructure, and the design decisions behind them.

The stackLIVE

Technology

The languages, databases, and open-source projects the platform is built on, and what each one does here.

The provenanceLIVE

Data Sources

Where every figure comes from: the statistical office, register, or open-data portal behind each country's records.

The interfaceLIVE

Data & API

Bulk downloads, the API reference, API keys, and an MCP endpoint for AI agents working with the data.

The argument

The agent layer

Why the map of government belongs in the commons, what an assistant can reach through it today, and where that coverage still stops.

Current coverage

Counted where they govern.

The headline figures come from the registry itself, and they grow as coverage does.

330,000+Government entities
200+Countries
130,000+Boundaries on the map
50US states, all covered

United States

  • 160,000+ entities across all 50 states, DC, and territories
  • New York (14,600+), California (9,700+), Texas (9,300+)
  • 51,000+ special districts, 13,500+ school districts
  • 4,200+ tribal nations and indigenous lands

Europe

  • 121,000+ entities across 48 countries
  • France: 35,200+ communes, departments, and regions
  • Italy: 15,900+ comuni, province, and regioni
  • UK: 13,900+ councils, authorities, and trusts
  • Germany: 11,500+ Gemeinden, Kreise, and Bundesländer
  • Spain (8,200+ municipios), Czech Republic (6,100+), Portugal (4,600+)
  • Ireland: 310+ local authorities

Americas & Asia-Pacific

  • Canada: 9,400+ municipalities, school boards, and MRCs
  • Japan: 1,800+ prefectures and municipalities
  • Australia: 1,400+ local government areas and entities
  • South Korea: 4,000+ si, gun, gu, and administrative divisions