OpenDataPhilly / City of Philadelphia Open Data Program
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Philadelphia has published open data since 2012 and lists 300+ datasets — but the city's own terms of use reserve all rights in the database, a step below the public-domain dedications used by Boston or San Francisco.
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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 →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 6 more in Philadelphia · 📊 Open data guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
The City of Philadelphia has published data on OpenDataPhilly since a 2012 executive order, and the portal now catalogs 300+ datasets and APIs spanning the city and other regional bodies — flagship city feeds include Indego bike-share trips, 311 service requests and property assessments. But the city's own terms of use do not dedicate the data to the public domain: they state the City 'reserves all rights in the database and any data contained therein,' and that browsing or using the data 'does not constitute a transfer of, nor does the end user receive, any title or interest' in it — a materially weaker legal posture than the public-domain dedications used by comparable US portals like Boston's Analyze Boston or San Francisco's DataSF.
🎓 Lesson
A large, long-running catalog is not the same claim as an open license — reserving 'all rights' in the terms of use puts Philadelphia's own datasets closer to nyc-open-data's no-dedication default than to the PDDL cities.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “OpenDataPhilly / City of Philadelphia Open Data Program” — Philadelphia, United States. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/philadelphia-open-data-program/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.