Şeffaf Ankara Open Data Platform

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Ankara wrote its own open-data licence and used it to point at CC BY 4.0. Version 1.0 also says that if the city issues a new version and you keep using the data, you have accepted it — which CC BY 4.0 does not allow.

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 byAnkara Büyükşehir Belediyesi — Bilgi İşlem Dairesi Başkanlığı

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 6 more in Ankara · 📊 Open data guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects

Ankara Metropolitan Municipality opened seffaf.ankara.bel.tr on 28 July 2022 as a map-first open data portal, organised around a GIS viewer rather than a dataset table. It publishes municipal excavation sites, transit boarding counts, Başkent Kart distribution and spending figures, reservoir levels, social assistance payments by district and the incoming, pending and completed application counts of the Başkent 153 request line. The licence is the city's own instrument, the "Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi Şeffaf Ankara Açık Veri Lisansı", version 1.0.

Live 📅 since 2022

🎓 Lesson

A bespoke wrapper around a standard licence can quietly take back what the standard licence grants. Ankara's text names CC BY 4.0 — the same unmodified international licence Montreal uses — and permits commercial reuse with attribution. But it then reserves the right to publish new versions and states that continued use means acceptance of them, while CC BY 4.0's own grant is irrevocable and cannot be re-versioned against an existing user. Read the wrapper, not just the badge.

📡 Data & IoT Open data Digital government GIS & cadastre

Sources

↗ Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi (operator) — licence text, PDFThe licence itself, extracted from the PDF. Grant: "Bu site altında yer alan tüm materyal ve veriler aksi belirtilmediği sürece CC BY 4.0 uluslarası lisansı ile Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi tarafından lisanslanmıştır." Commercial reuse: "Bu lisans kapsamında veriler atıf vermek şartıyla ticari amaç ve girişimler dahil olmak üzere kopyalanabilir, düzenlenebilir, dağıtılabilir, yeniden kullanılabilir ve yeniden dağıtılabilirdir." Versioning clause: "Bu, Şeffaf Ankara Açık Veri Lisansı'nın 1.0 sürümüdür. Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi zaman zaman Şeffaf Ankara Açık Veri Lisansının yeni sürümlerini yayınlayabilir. Veri setlerini kullanmaya devam ederseniz, bu Lisans'ın yeni sürümünü kabul ettiğiniz anlamına gelir." Carve-outs cover personal data, third-party rights, patents/trademarks/design rights and identity documents ("Türkiye Pasaportu gibi kimlik belgeleri"). Issued by Bilgi İşlem Dairesi Başkanlığı.

↗ Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi (operator) — launch announcement, 28 July 2022Dates the launch and carries the city's own size claim: "1000'den fazla açık veri dosyası ve 300 binden fazla haritada konumlandırılmış verisi" — over 1,000 data files in 7 categories and over 300,000 map-located data points in 16 categories. Also the source of the superlative "Dünya'da indirilebilir harita tabanlı ilk ve tek açık veri platformu", quoted here as the mayor's claim, not adopted. Lists the published domains including Başkent 153 application counts and Başkent Kart spending data.

↗ Şeffaf Ankara (operator) — the portalLive portal, checked directly. Datasets are grouped in eight categories (Başkent Kart, Kültür Sanat ve Spor, Ulaşım, Çevre ve Sağlık, Toplum, Eğitim, Bilim ve Teknoloji, Genel) per resources/data/TeoAbbAcikVeri.json. The dataset list itself is served from an internal table (teo_abb_acik_veri) through an encrypted application endpoint rather than a public catalogue API, so the file count could NOT be verified independently and remains the city's own figure.

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🇨🇦 Montreal Open Data Portal & Digital Data Charter · Montreal Both name CC BY 4.0 — Montreal uses the unmodified international licence, Ankara wraps it in an instrument it reserves the right to reissue. 🇨🇦 Toronto Open Data: CKAN portal under a bespoke municipal licence · Toronto Bespoke municipal licences with attribution and a revocation risk the international licences were written to remove. 🇹🇷 ISKI Centralized SCADA Water Balancing Strategy · Istanbul Turkey's two largest municipalities publishing their own operating figures — and the reason Ankara's water numbers can be compared at all.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Şeffaf Ankara Open Data Platform” — Ankara, Turkey. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ankara-seffaf-open-data/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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

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