Self-hosted / open sourceGIS & GeospatialHeadquarters: GB

Lutra Consulting: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Lutra Consulting provides geospatial software development, consulting, training and support centred on QGIS. It has worked with QGIS since 2009, has contributed features such as mesh layers, point clouds and 3D, and has developed numerous QGIS plugins. It also builds Mergin Maps, a tool for collecting, sharing and publishing geospatial data: a mobile and tablet app for field capture, synchronisation with QGIS, and web publishing of QGIS projects. Mergin Maps is offered as a cloud service and can also be installed on your own infrastructure.

Lutra Consulting Limited is registered in England and Wales, with its registered office in Ashford, Kent, and a team spread across eight countries. The United Kingdom is outside the EU. Mergin Maps is open source, dual-licensed under AGPL-3 and a commercial licence, with community and enterprise editions of the server in a public repository. A European organisation can run the server in its own environment and keep field data under its control. The sources reviewed do not state where the hosted Mergin Maps cloud is located.

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Sovereignty score

79 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (GB)
Data residency SOV-3100
Hosting inside and outside Europe (GB, EU)
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-675
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	GB (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in GB, EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category	GIS & Geospatial
Type	Product
Website	lutraconsulting.co.uk ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Lutra Consulting

The European alternatives to Lutra Consulting come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Lutra Consulting

Lutra Consulting is headquartered in GB, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

Lutra Consulting hosts data in GB, EU. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Lutra Consulting 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 Lutra Consulting 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 Lutra Consulting?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Lutra Consulting include OPENGIS.ch, Oslandia and Coexya. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Lutra Consulting?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Lutra Consulting include OPENGIS.ch, Oslandia, ESA SNAP, gvSIG and Lizmap. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Lutra Consulting GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Lutra Consulting is headquartered in GB (OTHER) and hosts data in GB, EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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