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Self-hosted / open sourceMaps & NavigationHeadquarters: NL

OsmAnd: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OsmAnd is an offline maps and navigation app for Android, iOS and Huawei AppGallery, built on OpenStreetMap data. It provides detailed offline maps, offline voice navigation with lane guidance and rerouting, address and category search, foot, hiking and bike paths, public transport stops, GPX trip recording, and plugins for contour lines and hill shading. Maps are updated monthly, and OsmAnd Live provides hourly updates.

The project is maintained by OsmAnd B.V. in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. The source code is licensed under GPLv3, with artwork under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0. According to its privacy policy, OsmAnd collects aggregated usage data without personal identifiers; map downloads are logged with a UUID, IP address, time and region, but not for manually installed maps. The optional OsmAnd Cloud stores synchronised data on Scaleway and Amazon servers, without naming their locations. Purchases are processed by FastSpring, which may transfer data to the United States.

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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
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalHETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
CategoryMaps & Navigation
TypeProduct
Websiteosmand.net ↗

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 OsmAnd

The European alternatives to OsmAnd 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 OsmAnd

OsmAnd 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 OsmAnd scores best on data residency.

OsmAnd 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 OsmAnd 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 OsmAnd?

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

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

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

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

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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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