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OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OpenStreetMap is a community-built map of the world. Volunteer mappers add and maintain data such as roads, trails, cafés and railway stations, using aerial imagery, GPS devices and field maps. The data supplies many websites, apps and devices. You may use it for any purpose if you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors; for certain kinds of derived work, the result may only be distributed under the same licence. Organisations can therefore build their own tile server and routing service on the data instead of relying on a commercial map API.

The OpenStreetMap Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, operates the website and related services; it is registered in England and Wales in the United Kingdom. According to its privacy policy, personal data is kept in the UK and the Netherlands, with backups in the EU. Map tiles are delivered through a CDN, and Fastly is among those supporting the hosting. If you run your own tile and routing servers in the EU, the processing stays under your control.

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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 July 2, 2026
HeadquartersEU (EU)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionNo — no adequacy decisionVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Compliance documents1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signalFASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryMaps & Navigation
TypeProduct
Websiteopenstreetmap.org ↗

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 OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles)

The European alternatives to OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles) 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 OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles)

OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles) is headquartered in EU 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 OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles) scores best on data residency.

OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles) 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 OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles) 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 OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles) 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 OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles)?

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

Is OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

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

Security page / trust center
osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

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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