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Sourcepole: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Sourcepole AG is a GIS service provider based in Zürich that delivers services around QGIS and open-source web mapping. Its offering includes QGIS Enterprise, a maintenance and support package for spatial data infrastructures built around QGIS Desktop, QGIS Server and the QGIS Web Client; QGIS Cloud, which publishes QGIS maps to browsers and mobile clients through OGC WMS and WFS services; and hosting, advice on spatial data infrastructures and custom solutions built on open-source components.

The company is based in Switzerland, outside the European Union. Its imprint lists Sourcepole AG in Zürich and names no parent company. According to its hosting page, the servers run in Europe and hosting in Switzerland is available on request, so an organisation with a Swiss residency requirement should ask for that option explicitly. QGIS itself is open-source software, so an organisation can also operate it on its own infrastructure; the choice between Sourcepole's hosting and self-hosting is then a procurement question.

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Sovereignty score

67 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
Data residency SOV-380
Hosting in Switzerland only (recognised by the EU as adequate)
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 12, 2026

Headquarters	CH (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	CHVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	GIS & Geospatial
Type	Product
Website	sourcepole.ch ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Sourcepole

The European alternatives to Sourcepole come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Sourcepole

Sourcepole 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.

Sourcepole 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.

Sourcepole 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 Sourcepole 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 Sourcepole?

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

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

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

Sourcepole is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in CH. That makes Sourcepole 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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