Today, it’s a great day. The Gipuzkoa Provincial Council has released all its data in the B5M geo website under a free license.

The “Legal information” page has some changes including what we believe is a license compatible with CC-BY:ç

The content geographic information corresponding to the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council may be reproduced, removed and reused freely on a nonexclusive basis, in whole or in part, by any person in any format and for any subsequent legitimate use under the following terms:

This is the only condition of reusing content that limits its use:

1. Authorship must be indicated in any case.

It’s great news, no doubt. Our Provincial Council’s geo team is an example because of the quality of their projects and services; there isn’t around any public administration’s geo team like Gipuzkoa’s. We hope that this release decision will be copied by other public administrations.

Not only OpenStreetMap has a wonderful chance to create a great map of our province, now, companies like Tagzania Services will be able to develop really useful and interesting apps for our customers using B5M’s data. Thanks a lot B5M, eskerrik asko!

Gipuzkoa is one of the basque provinces. It’s capital is Donostia-San Sebastian.