  Massive vector fields can be described in a gauge invariant way with the
introduction of compensating fields. In the unitary gauge one recovers the
original formulation. Although this gauging mechanism can be extended to
noncommutative spaces in a straightforward way, non trivial aspects show up
when we consider the Seiberg-Witten map. As we show here, only a particular
class of its solutions leads to an action that admits the unitary gauge fixing.
