U.S. City Open Data Census
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Records about property sales, mortgages, and foreclosures. This data can help the public understand real-estate trends in their city, and can help keep owners of specific properties accountable to the community. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | Yes | |
| Available in bulk | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Parcels are now updated every month with this data from the auditor's webpage |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | DBF, SHP, SHX, XML | |
| findable | 3 | see response for parcel data (because this data is actually contained within the parcel data set, so that all tax assessment is automatically geographically linked to parcel polygons) |
| findable_steps | I went to the CAGIS homepage (where I was directed via google search for this data), went to the free GIS layer download link, and followed instructions for downloading CAGIS open data quarterly. This file was inside that downloadable zipfile. | |
| licence_url | https://cagismaps.hamilton-co.org/cagisportal/cagisHome/ | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | This was easily consumable in any software that will read one of the above data formats (including many free downloadable solutions, like Tableau Public). |
| collector_name | Cincinnati Area Geographic Information Systems Consortium (CAGIS) | provided to CAGIS via Hamilton County Auditor |
| characteristics | Address or location, Date, Amount of money involved, Type of record or transaction | |
| location | - https://cagis.org/Opendata/ | CAGIS Free GIS layer download site |
