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Magic Earth: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Magic Earth is a navigation app from Magic Lane, available for iOS and Android and, according to the company, for cars running Android Automotive OS. It provides routing for car, pedestrian, bike, e-bike, public transport and truck, with vehicle dimensions for truck routes. It includes 3D maps, real-time traffic based on contributions from drivers, support for CarPlay and Apple Watch, and offline maps for more than 200 countries and regions. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap. Magic Lane also supplies navigation platforms for developers.

Magic Lane International B.V. is headquartered in Amsterdam, with an R&D centre in Brașov, Romania. Magic Earth is not open source. The company states that the app does not collect personal data, track location or profile users, and that location data never leaves European legal jurisdiction. These are the vendor's own statements and no independent audit was found. For European organisations, the offline operation is relevant because it reduces dependence on external services.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 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-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	RTD - Orange Romania S.A., RO (RO)Technically measured
Category	Maps & Navigation
Type	Product
Website	magicearth.com ↗

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 Magic Earth

The European alternatives to Magic Earth 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 Magic Earth

Magic Earth is headquartered in NL 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 Magic Earth scores best on data residency.

Magic Earth is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Magic Earth 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 Magic Earth?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Magic Earth?

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

Is Magic Earth GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Magic Earth is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Magic Earth an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): magicearth.com/assets/docs/MagicEarth-User-Data-Privacy-20240703.pdf

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 23, 2026.

Digital sovereignty in Maps & Navigation

Maps & Navigation: Maps, route planning and navigation services. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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