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Situm: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Situm is an indoor positioning and wayfinding platform that provides indoor maps, navigation and tracking for buildings. Developers use its mobile SDKs, a web SDK and REST APIs to add location and route features to their own applications, and a customer dashboard is available to manage the service. It is delivered as a cloud service combined with software components for apps.

Situm Technologies, S.L. is a company based in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, so the provider is established in the EU and subject to the GDPR. Its privacy policy refers to Article 28 processing agreements, names a data protection officer and lists hosting and infrastructure providers as processors. The policy does not state where data is stored, but it notes that processing outside the European Economic Area can take place, with transfers covered by European Commission standard contractual clauses. For a European organisation, the main points to check are the hosting location and the sub-processors that receive building and staff location data.

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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 11, 2026
HeadquartersES (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryMaps & Navigation
TypeProduct
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Situm

The European alternatives to Situm 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 Situm

Situm is headquartered in ES 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 Situm scores best on data residency.

Situm 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 Situm 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 Situm?

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

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

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

Situm is headquartered in ES (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Situm 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 October 11, 2026.

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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