City, New York Open Data vs Open Government, ACT

NYC Open Data runs on Socrata; a live keyless GET against the SODA endpoint for the 311 service-request dataset (`data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/erm2-nwe9.json`) returned full JSON with a wildcard `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header, and the same resource is fetchable as CSV by swapping the file extension. Anonymous reads work without any credential; registering a free Socrata app token is optional and only raises the per-IP throttling limit.

Data.act.gov.au is the Australian Capital Territory's open-data portal, run on Socrata; its catalog discovery API at `www.data.act.gov.au/api/catalog/v1` answers keyless GETs with full dataset JSON and a wildcard `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header (the bare `data.act.gov.au` apex briefly redirects through plain HTTP before landing back on the `www` host over HTTPS, so link to `www` directly). Individual datasets are queryable through Socrata's SODA API in JSON or CSV, covering ACT government services, planning, and community data.