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TerraVisu: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

TerraVisu is an interactive web application for visualising and analysing spatial data, aimed at organisations that want to show territorial data such as demographics, housing, heritage, mobility and environment on a map. It offers dynamic maps, layer management, multi-criteria search, dashboards and configurable modules. The application is built with React and NextJS and is installed as a web application on your own server; the documentation covers installation and configuration.

TerraVisu is open source under the MIT licence. The project's README names Makina Corpus, a French software company with offices in France and Belgium, and Autonomens as the publishers; Makina Corpus also runs the demonstration site. Among its examples, the project points to an observatory run by a French département. Because you host the software yourself, map data and user data stay on your own infrastructure.

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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 October 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
Self-hosted, e.g. in EU (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
GIS & Geospatial
Type
Product
Website
makina-corpus.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to TerraVisu

The European alternatives to TerraVisu come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 TerraVisu

TerraVisu is headquartered in FR 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 TerraVisu scores best on data residency.

TerraVisu 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 TerraVisu 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 TerraVisu?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to TerraVisu include 3Dsurvey, 52°North and Airbus Defence & Space. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to TerraVisu?

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

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

TerraVisu is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes TerraVisu 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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Digital sovereignty in GIS & Geospatial

GIS & Geospatial: Geographic information systems, map visualisation and spatial data analysis. 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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