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Mapstr: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Mapstr is a French app and website for saving places on a personal map, with notes and tags, and for sharing selected maps with others. Users can import addresses from other services, create private or public maps and receive alerts near saved places. The service is available for Android, iOS and the web, and there is a separate offering for businesses.

The publisher is MAPSTR SAS, with its registered office in Malakoff, France, and registration at the Versailles trade and companies register. The company therefore falls under French and European law. According to its legal notice, data is stored with Amazon Web Services in the Ireland region, which keeps it inside the EU. The company states that it does not sell or share user data. European users can therefore regard the service as an EU-hosted option for personal place lists.

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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 October 10, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryMaps & Navigation
TypeProduct
Websitemapstr.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Mapstr

The European alternatives to Mapstr come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Mapstr

Mapstr is headquartered in FR 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 Mapstr scores best on data residency.

Mapstr 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 Mapstr 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 Mapstr?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Mapstr 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 Mapstr?

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

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

Mapstr is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Mapstr 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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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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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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