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Dallas OpenData Portal

The City of Dallas launched its open-data portal, now at dallasopendata.com, in November 2013 on the Socrata platform, publishing city records spanning 311 service requests, police incident data, budget data and permitting activity. As of this review the portal's own catalog API reports 1,087 published datasets. Unlike several peer cities in the atlas (Zurich, Montreal), Dallas has not adopted a blanket open license such as CC0 or a public-domain dedication for the catalog — access is instead governed by a general Terms of Use agreement, so individual datasets' reuse rights are not uniformly guaranteed the way they are on portals with a stated default license.

Live 📅 since 2013

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-02

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📊 Impact

1,087 datasets published on the Socrata-based catalog, self-counted via the portal's own catalog API at the time of this review.

Evidence🏛️ Official

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) · Open data · Urban data platform (UDP)

Sources

↗ City of Dallas (GovDelivery bulletin): New Open Data Portal provides online access to records and informationofficial November 21, 2013 launch announcement

↗ Dallas OpenData catalog APIself-counted dataset total (resultSetSize: 1,087) at time of review

↗ Dallas OpenData: Terms of Usegoverns data reuse; no site-wide open-license dedication (e.g. CC0) was found

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇺🇸 OpenDataPhilly / City of Philadelphia Open Data Program · Philadelphia Both large US catalogs skip a blanket open license — Dallas relies on Terms of Use, Philadelphia's terms 'reserve all rights.' 🇦🇺 Melbourne Open Data Portal · Melbourne Both portals mix licensed and unlicensed datasets rather than dedicating the whole catalog, unlike PDDL cities such as Boston. 🇿🇦 Cape Town Open Data Portal · Cape Town Both entries self-count their catalog size straight from the platform's own API rather than citing an audited total.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Dallas OpenData Portal” — Dallas, United States. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/dallas-open-data-portal/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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