Confinia is an EU-hosted API for administrative boundaries with full historical versioning. It is aimed at European developers and is described as providing GDPR-clean location data, with the stated goal of avoiding Google Maps’ pricing and the compliance concerns of a US-based provider.
The service supports looking up boundaries through time. Example queries in the documentation show requests for French communes by latitude, longitude, and date; any European municipality on a given date; the full history of one unit; and NUTS regions by level, country, and date. The page also describes a live demo, API documentation, API examples, a journal, and a quickstart. Coverage called out on the page includes France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Europe more broadly, with France described down to communes at exact INSEE event dates since 1943, mergers and splits genealogy, Germany’s Gemeinden from 2016 to 2025, and the Netherlands’ gemeenten from 2016 to 2026.
Confinia exposes its data through an API at api.confinia.io. The page says it is free during development with no key required yet; for the beta, a key can be requested by sending a POST to /v1/keys with an email address, and then included as X-API-Key. The page frames it as an API for administrative boundaries rather than a general mapping product.
Confinia is an API design, testing & docs product. It focuses on accessing accurate, GDPR-compliant historical and current administrative boundary data for European locations without relying on US-based providers. It is built as a B2B product for european developers and GIS professionals. Confinia follows a freemium model. It runs on the web and API.
Confinia first shipped in 2026. Development happens publicly on GitHub with 22 commits in the last 90 days. Key capabilities include historical boundaries, GDPR compliance, and API access. It exposes integrations via a public API. Confinia is currently in beta.
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