Self-hosted / open sourceMaps & NavigationHeadquarters: FI

Digitransit: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Digitransit is an open-source journey planner for public transport in Finland, covering routing, maps and geocoding. It is developed jointly by HSL (Helsinki Region Transport), the Finnish company Waltti Solutions Oy and Fintraffic, and forms the basis of Finland's main route and timetable service. Its components include a user interface, map tiles, geocoding and data conversion tools, and route planning runs on OpenTripPlanner. The components are published as open source on GitHub.

The source code is dual-licensed under the EUPL-1.2 and the AGPL-3.0, both open-source licences, so an organisation can run the components on its own infrastructure. The platform is an alternative to commercial journey planners with public-transport routing, such as Citymapper. The developing organisations are Finnish, and no foreign owner is named. The developers' pages do not state where the service's data is hosted, so for a European organisation the relevant facts are the development within the EU and the open licences.

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Sovereignty score

94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 12, 2026

Headquarters	FI (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Maps & Navigation
Type	Product
Website	digitransit.fi ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Digitransit

The European alternatives to Digitransit come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Digitransit

Digitransit is headquartered in FI and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Digitransit scores best on data residency.

Digitransit is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Digitransit together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Digitransit?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Digitransit include Bikemap, BRouter and calimoto. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Digitransit?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Digitransit include BRouter and GraphHopper. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Digitransit GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Digitransit is headquartered in FI (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Digitransit an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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