About Cidade Labs

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

The model is borrowed and inspired from civic-technology offices within the City of New York and BetaNYC. Our maps and tools are free to use. Each project links to its data sources, method, and code.

How it works

Cidade Labs uses data published by public agencies to build maps and tools. Public institutions (the Compañía de Tranvías, the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, the Concello da Coruña, the Xunta de Galicia) collect this data as part of running a city and a region; the lab does not generate it. The code for each tool is available in its 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 Galicia and to a wider audience following the region's civic and urban life.

Who

Cidade Labs is an independent, noncommercial project.