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Montevideo Open Data: the Intendencia's Catalogue and Its Licences

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Montevideo opened its data by resolution in 2010. Of the 159 datasets it publishes today, 21 still name no licence, so anyone reusing them has to guess what is allowed.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byIntendencia de Montevideo, whose departments publish the datasets; Uruguay's e-government agency AGESIC runs the national catalogue that harvests them
Scale🏙️ City-wide

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The Intendencia de Montevideo adopted open-data principles by resolution 640/10, approved on 22 February 2010, and in December 2010 released a dedicated portal with 28 datasets, from city addresses to bus timetables. Today the city runs its own catalogue, which Uruguay's national open-data catalogue harvests: on 7 November 2026 the national catalogue listed 159 datasets from the Intendencia. 136 of them carry Uruguay's open data licence, which allows commercial and non-commercial reuse, including adapting the data and combining it with other data, provided the provider, the licence and the dataset are named. Two are marked with another open licence, and 21 name no licence at all. Among the sets that are kept current is the full register of complaints filed in the city's Sistema Único de Reclamos since November 2016, overwritten every month.

Live 📅 since 2010

🎓 Lesson

Being early to open data does not settle the licence question. Montevideo committed to open-data principles in 2010, yet 21 of the 159 Intendencia datasets in the national catalogue, among them the urban heat-island and recycling drop-off datasets, name no licence, which leaves a reuser to guess what is allowed. Uruguay's national licence already gives the city a ready-made answer; applying it to every dataset is a metadata rule, not a technology project.

📡 Data & IoTOpen dataDigital government

Sources

↗ Open Knowledge Foundation — open-government mailing list: Guillermo Moncecchi (Intendencia de Montevideo), "Open Government Data: Montevideo is calling" (29 Dec 2010)Message by an Intendencia engineer to the Open Knowledge Foundation's open-government list. It says the Intendencia decided at the start of 2010 to embrace open-data principles under resolution 640/10, approved on 22 February, presented the policy in August 2010, and had just released data.montevideo.gub.uy, where 28 datasets could be downloaded as of 29 December, from city addresses to bus timetables.
↗ AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: Intendencia de Montevideo organisation pageThe national catalogue's page for the Intendencia de Montevideo. On 7 November 2026 it showed 159 datasets, with a licence filter listing 136 under the Licencia de DAG de Uruguay and 2 under 'Otra (Open)'; every dataset carries the tag 'Harvest'.
↗ AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: API listing of the Intendencia de Montevideo's datasetsMachine-readable listing of all 159 Intendencia datasets in the national catalogue, read on 7 November 2026. Every record names the harvest source 'intendencia-montevideo-prod'; 136 have the licence id odc-uy, 2 'other-open', and 21 an empty licence field (our count of the records), among them 'Islas de Calor Urbanas' and 'Puntos de entrega voluntaria para materiales reciclables'. Most resources are served from the city's own host ckan-data.montevideo.gub.uy.
↗ AGESIC — Licencia de Datos Abiertos – Uruguay, version 0.1Text of Uruguay's open data licence, version 0.1. It allows open data and metadata to be reproduced, distributed, adapted, transformed and combined with other data, for commercial and non-commercial use, and requires every use to cite the provider, the licence and the dataset.
↗ AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: Reclamos registrados en el Sistema Único de Reclamos de la Intendencia de Montevideo (dataset page)Dataset page for the complaints register. It says the file holds every complaint recorded in the Sistema Único de Reclamos from 1 November 2016 to the last day of the previous month and is overwritten each month with the current state of each complaint; licence: Licencia de DAG de Uruguay.
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Evidence file · public beta 12 addressable claims, 5 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The file is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-d1b4457e46b3d3c1 quantitative
adopted open-data principles by resolution 640/10, approved on 22 February 2010
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
An Intendencia engineer writes that the city decided at the start of 2010 to embrace open-data principles, as stated in resolution 640/10, approved on 22 February.
Caveat
The resolution is cited from this message; its text on the Intendencia's own site could not be retrieved.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Knowledge Foundation — open-government mailing list: Guillermo Moncecchi (Intendencia de Montevideo), "Open Government Data: Montevideo is calling" (29 Dec 2010)
Claim 2 clm-80cff5ff00deedbd quantitative
in December 2010 released a dedicated portal with 28 datasets, from city addresses to bus timetables
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The message says data.montevideo.gub.uy had just been released in December and offered 28 downloadable datasets as of 29 December, from city addresses to bus timetables.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Knowledge Foundation — open-government mailing list: Guillermo Moncecchi (Intendencia de Montevideo), "Open Government Data: Montevideo is calling" (29 Dec 2010)
Claim 3 clm-584487a419e4ff0b descriptive
the city runs its own catalogue, which Uruguay's national open-data catalogue harvests
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
Every Intendencia record in the national catalogue names the harvest source 'intendencia-montevideo-prod', and its files are served from the city's own catalogue host.
Caveat
The count comes from the national catalogue's copy of the city's catalogue.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: API listing of the Intendencia de Montevideo's datasets
Claim 4 clm-86388cc1bdc0730d quantitative
on 7 November 2026 the national catalogue listed 159 datasets from the Intendencia
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The Intendencia's page in the national catalogue showed 159 datasets when read on 7 November 2026.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: Intendencia de Montevideo organisation page
Claim 5 clm-f3475f0af5758b4c quantitative
136 of them carry Uruguay's open data licence
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The licence filter on the Intendencia's catalogue page lists 136 datasets under the Licencia de DAG de Uruguay.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: Intendencia de Montevideo organisation page
Claim 6 clm-a3db455f0e6d2cd2 descriptive
allows commercial and non-commercial reuse, including adapting the data and combining it with other data, provided the provider, the licence and the dataset are named
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The licence permits commercial and non-commercial use, adaptation, transformation and combination with other data, and requires every use to cite the provider, the licence and the dataset.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. AGESIC — Licencia de Datos Abiertos – Uruguay, version 0.1
Claim 8 clm-25ebe867dcd0399e quantitative
21 name no licence at all
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
Counting the 159 records in the catalogue's machine-readable listing, 21 have an empty licence field.
Caveat
Our count of the national catalogue's harvested records on 7 November 2026; the city's own catalogue may show a different value.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: API listing of the Intendencia de Montevideo's datasets
Claim 9 clm-e348fce5816a9b0b quantitative
the full register of complaints filed in the city's Sistema Único de Reclamos since November 2016, overwritten every month
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The dataset holds every complaint recorded in the Sistema Único de Reclamos from 1 November 2016 and is overwritten each month with the current state of each complaint.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: Reclamos registrados en el Sistema Único de Reclamos de la Intendencia de Montevideo (dataset page)
Claim 10 clm-99102c0f67450e20 quantitative
Montevideo committed to open-data principles in 2010
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
The city adopted open-data principles by resolution 640/10 in February 2010.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Knowledge Foundation — open-government mailing list: Guillermo Moncecchi (Intendencia de Montevideo), "Open Government Data: Montevideo is calling" (29 Dec 2010)
Claim 11 clm-dfba489b014c1938 quantitative
21 of the 159 Intendencia datasets in the national catalogue, among them the urban heat-island and recycling drop-off datasets, name no licence
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
In the machine-readable listing, 21 of 159 records have an empty licence field, including 'Islas de Calor Urbanas' and 'Puntos de entrega voluntaria para materiales reciclables'.
Caveat
Our count of the harvested records on 7 November 2026.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: API listing of the Intendencia de Montevideo's datasets
Claim 12 clm-81901d7af70f2372 descriptive
Uruguay's national licence already gives the city a ready-made answer
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this file
What the mapping says
136 of the Intendencia's datasets already use the Licencia de DAG de Uruguay, so the licence is in use for most of its catalogue.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: Intendencia de Montevideo organisation page
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-11-07-baseline effective 2026-11-07 · created 2026-11-07

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Intendencia de Montevideo, whose departments publish the datasets; Uruguay's e-government agency AGESIC runs the national catalogue that harvests them
Actor types
city-government, national-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Not recorded
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

5 source dossiers

Open Knowledge Foundation — open-government mailing list: Guillermo Moncecchi (Intendencia de Montevideo), "Open Government Data: Montevideo is calling" (29 Dec 2010) lists-archive.okfn.org · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-d9f15965a8e29925
Publisher
Name not classified · lists-archive.okfn.org
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2010-12-29
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Message by an Intendencia engineer to the Open Knowledge Foundation's open-government list. It says the Intendencia decided at the start of 2010 to embrace open-data principles under resolution 640/10, approved on 22 February, presented the policy in August 2010, and had just released data.montevideo.gub.uy, where 28 datasets could be downloaded as of 29 December, from city addresses to bus timetables.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: Intendencia de Montevideo organisation page catalogodatos.gub.uy · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-a8f146799c2c1626
Publisher
Name not classified · catalogodatos.gub.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The national catalogue's page for the Intendencia de Montevideo. On 7 November 2026 it showed 159 datasets, with a licence filter listing 136 under the Licencia de DAG de Uruguay and 2 under 'Otra (Open)'; every dataset carries the tag 'Harvest'.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: API listing of the Intendencia de Montevideo's datasets catalogodatos.gub.uy · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-37437db0d8d8e167
Publisher
Name not classified · catalogodatos.gub.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Machine-readable listing of all 159 Intendencia datasets in the national catalogue, read on 7 November 2026. Every record names the harvest source 'intendencia-montevideo-prod'; 136 have the licence id odc-uy, 2 'other-open', and 21 an empty licence field (our count of the records), among them 'Islas de Calor Urbanas' and 'Puntos de entrega voluntaria para materiales reciclables'. Most resources are served from the city's own host ckan-data.montevideo.gub.uy.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
AGESIC — Licencia de Datos Abiertos – Uruguay, version 0.1 gub.uy · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-016a1274fb185a23
Publisher
Name not classified · gub.uy
Type / language
pdf · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Text of Uruguay's open data licence, version 0.1. It allows open data and metadata to be reproduced, distributed, adapted, transformed and combined with other data, for commercial and non-commercial use, and requires every use to cite the provider, the licence and the dataset.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
AGESIC — Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos: Reclamos registrados en el Sistema Único de Reclamos de la Intendencia de Montevideo (dataset page) catalogodatos.gub.uy · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-702957f24010c46b
Publisher
Name not classified · catalogodatos.gub.uy
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-07
Dossier created
2026-11-07
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Dataset page for the complaints register. It says the file holds every complaint recorded in the Sistema Único de Reclamos from 1 November 2016 to the last day of the previous month and is overwritten each month with the current state of each complaint; licence: Licencia de DAG de Uruguay.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this file
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Montevideo Open Data: the Intendencia's Catalogue and Its Licences” — Montevideo, Uruguay. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/montevideo-open-data/ (last verified 2026-11-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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