An independent civic lab for A Coruña

Coruña Labs is a small, independent lab that builds open maps and tools on public data. It takes the information a city already produces (bus positions, census figures, school boundaries, planning records) and turns it into things anyone in A Coruña can use, in the browser, for free.

The model is borrowed openly from civic-technology offices like New York's Planning Labs: build well-made, open-source tools on public data, document how they work, and give them away. Every project here names its data sources and explains its method. A civic tool that cannot be checked is not worth much.

How it works

The lab does not generate data. Public institutions (the Compañía de Tranvías, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, the Concello da Coruña, the Xunta de Galicia) do that as part of running a city and a region. The lab's role is narrower and more useful: to make that work legible. Each tool is open-source and lives in its own repository, so anyone can read it, reuse it, or improve it.

Languages

The lab works in Galician, Spanish, and English, so its tools are useful both to residents of A Coruña and to a wider audience following the city's civic and urban life.

Who

Coruña Labs is an independent effort, not a company and not for profit. In time it may pursue grants or work with public and non-governmental partners, but its purpose is straightforward: to make the city more legible to the people who live in it.