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Mes Adresses: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Mes Adresses is an online tool with which municipalities manage their addresses, from building a Base Adresse Locale (BAL, a local address base) to keeping it up to date. The BAL can be published into the Base Adresse Nationale, France's national address database. The application is meant to be usable without technical skills and has a built-in tutorial. It runs as a web service at mes-adresses.data.gouv.fr; the source code is a Node.js application that can also be built and started on your own.

The project began at the initiative of Etalab and has been steered jointly with the ANCT, France's national agency for territorial cohesion, since 2020. Copyright is held by the ANCT and the French Government; the licence is MIT. The pages reviewed do not state in which country the service is hosted.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
GIS & Geospatial
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Mes Adresses

The European alternatives to Mes Adresses come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 Mes Adresses

Mes Adresses 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 Mes Adresses scores best on data residency.

Mes Adresses 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 Mes Adresses 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 Mes Adresses?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Mes Adresses include 3Dsurvey, 52°North and Airbus Defence & Space. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Mes Adresses?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Mes Adresses include 52°North, Camptocamp, Clearance and CloudCompare. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Mes Adresses GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Mes Adresses is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Mes Adresses 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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