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Visorando: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Visorando is a French website and app for finding hiking, walking and mountain-biking routes, with routes in France and abroad. Anyone, including tourism professionals, can propose routes, which moderators check before publication, and users can leave reviews. Each route has a map and description, and filters cover activity, distance, duration and difficulty. A route-creation tool lets users trace their own tracks on IGN or OpenStreetMap backgrounds, and the mobile app records GPS tracks in the field.

The site says it is run by a company of the same name based in Alsace, at the foot of the Vosges, in France. The site does not state the legal form, owners or data hosting location, and no open-source option is described. For a European organisation this is a French provider; the terms of use and privacy statement should be checked for how route and account data is handled before the service is relied on.

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 12, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Visorando

The European alternatives to Visorando 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 Visorando

Visorando 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 Visorando scores best on data residency.

Visorando 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 Visorando 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 Visorando?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Visorando?

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

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

Visorando is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Visorando 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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