Non-EU vendorMaps & NavigationHeadquarters: US

Stadia Maps: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Stadia Maps is a location platform with APIs for maps, geocoding and search, routing and navigation. It offers interactive and static maps, map styles (including from Stamen Design), turn-by-turn directions, isochrones and elevation data, plus SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Kotlin and Swift, among others. The services are built on open standards and projects such as OpenStreetMap and MapLibre and are delivered as a cloud API; for self-managed use the company also lists on-premise and embedded solutions.

The company operates as Stadia Maps, Inc. and was founded in 2016. Its team is spread across three continents, and according to its website the CEO is based in Tallinn. Stadia Maps offers EU-only endpoints so that users' data does not leave the European Union, and states that it does not track users and complies with the GDPR. The platform itself is not offered as open source. A European organisation should select the EU endpoints explicitly and review the company's data processing addendum.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AKAMAI-LINODE-AP - Akamai Connected Cloud, SG (US)Technically measured
Category	Maps & Navigation
Type	Product
Website	stadiamaps.com ↗

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 Stadia Maps

The European alternatives to Stadia Maps 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 Stadia Maps

Stadia Maps is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Stadia Maps hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

Stadia Maps 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.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Stadia Maps?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Stadia Maps include BRouter, GraphHopper and MapLibre. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Stadia Maps?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Stadia Maps include BRouter, GraphHopper, MapLibre, OpenRouteService, OpenStreetMap (self-host tiles), Organic Maps, OsmAnd and Valhalla (Mapzen). These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Stadia Maps GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Stadia Maps is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

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".

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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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