Building a Nursery Search Platform for French Parents: Geocoding Meets Childcare

Building a Nursery Search Platform for French Parents: Geocoding Meets Childcare Finding the right childcare facility is one of the biggest challenges French families face. Between municipal crèches, private nurseries, and family day-care providers, the options are overwhelming—and fragmented across dozens of regional databases. We decided to solve this by building a unified search platform that aggregates nursery data from official French government sources and makes it instantly searchable by location, capacity, and availability. The Problem We Solved Parents spent hours calling municipalities, checking outdated websites, and piecing together information from multiple sources. There was no single source of truth for nursery availability across France. The Ministry of Solidarity maintains open datasets of accredited childcare facilities, but they're scattered across regional portals and not easily consumable by regular users. We saw an opportunity. Architecture: From Data to Discovery