Self-hosted / open sourceGIS & GeospatialHeadquarters: CH

OPENGIS.ch: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OPENGIS.ch is a Swiss open source geodata company. It builds custom solutions and spatial data infrastructures that combine desktop, web and mobile components. It also provides support and maintenance under service-level agreements, plus consulting and training for open geospatial tools such as QGIS, QField, PostGIS and INTERLIS. The company develops QGIS, including core development and plugins, and created QField, a mobile app for fieldwork and data collection available for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux. QFieldCloud is the service that syncs projects and data between QGIS and the QField app.

OPENGIS.ch is headquartered in Laax, Switzerland, with offices in Bern, Winterthur, Champéry, Lausanne and Basel. Switzerland is not an EU member state but belongs to EFTA. QField is released under the GNU GPL version 2 or later, and the QFieldCloud backend is published as open source under the MIT licence. Its maintainers state that QFieldCloud can be self-hosted. An organisation can therefore run field-data synchronisation on its own infrastructure instead of relying on an externally hosted service.

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Sovereignty score

94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
Data residency SOV-3100
Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
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 9, 2026

Headquarters	CH (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in CH (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CDN77 - Datacamp Limited, GB (CZ)Technically measured
Category	GIS & Geospatial
Type	Product
Website	opengis.ch ↗

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 OPENGIS.ch

The European alternatives to OPENGIS.ch 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 OPENGIS.ch

OPENGIS.ch is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

OPENGIS.ch hosts data in Switzerland only. Switzerland is not part of the EU or the EEA, so the GDPR does not apply there directly; the European Commission does recognise Swiss data protection as adequate, so personal data can go there without extra safeguards. Our model therefore scores it between EU hosting and hosting outside Europe. If you require strictly EU hosting, take this into account.

OPENGIS.ch 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 OPENGIS.ch 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 OPENGIS.ch?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to OPENGIS.ch?

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

Is OPENGIS.ch GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

OPENGIS.ch is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes OPENGIS.ch 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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