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Woosmap: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Woosmap is a location platform delivered as cloud APIs and SDKs. Its search products include address autocomplete and geocoding, a store and asset locator, datasets for points, lines and polygons, and IP-based geolocation. Distance and transit APIs provide distance matrices, directions, isochrones and public transport routes; map products include a JavaScript map API, static maps, a store-locator widget and indoor maps. Mobile SDKs exist for iOS, Android, Flutter and React Native. The vendor targets retail and e-commerce teams, mainly in Europe, for uses such as address capture at checkout and store search.

Woosmap is a French company based in Montpellier, and the software is not open source. The vendor states that it is GDPR-compliant and does not use customers' or their users' data for advertising or other products. Its legal notice names Amazon Web Services as host of the website; the public documentation does not specify where API data is processed, so ask Woosmap for the data location and sub-processors before choosing it.

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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 5, 2026
HeadquartersFR (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
Websitewoosmap.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Woosmap

The European alternatives to Woosmap come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 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 Woosmap

Woosmap 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 Woosmap scores best on data residency.

Woosmap 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 Woosmap?

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

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

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

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