Construction Permits 78% open

Prince George's County, MD

What data is expected?

Locations of issued construction permits. This dataset can be a useful tool for tracking city real estate development trends, including neighborhoods most at risk of gentrification or disinvestment, as well as for tracking specific development projects and holding developers and city planners accountable. (More info)

  • Date of issue
  • Expiration date
  • Address
  • Permit type
  • Work description

How open is the data?

All answers

Question Answer Comment
Openly licensed No The license for this dataset is unspecified - No license is stated in terms of service of the PG county website for the open data portal nor any public domain specification. Requires at least attribution with a disclaimer.
Available in bulk Yes
Up-to-date Yes No explicit statement of the update frequency, but given last update was February 26, 2018 assuming once a week on Tuesdays.
Available free online Yes
Available free of charge Yes
In an open format CSV, JSON, RDF, TSV, XML Formats offered by Socrata export
findable 3
findable_steps Googled for PG County Open Data then looked for permits that related to construction.
Collected by government Yes
usability 3 Lacks a metadata description book and permit type uses acronyms.
collector_name Prince George's County Department of Permitting, Inspections, and Enforcement Department stated in the data description, the Socrata fields: Data Provided by (none) Dataset Owner OIT DataWarehouse
characteristics Date of issue, Address, Permit type
location https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Urban-Planning/R - Socrata Landing Page of January 2012-June 30 2013, https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Urban-Planning/R - Socrata Data Page of January 2012-June 30 2013, https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Urban-Planning/R - Socrata Landing Page of July 1, 2013 - present, https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Urban-Planning/R - Socrata Data Page of July 1, 2013 - present Both hosted on Socrata - two datasets one January 2012-June 30, 2013 and second is July 1, 2013 - present.

Meta data

Data location   https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Urban-Planning/R - Socrata Landing Page of January 2012-June 30 2013
   https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Urban-Planning/R - Socrata Data Page of January 2012-June 30 2013
   https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Urban-Planning/R - Socrata Landing Page of July 1, 2013 - present
   https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Urban-Planning/R - Socrata Data Page of July 1, 2013 - present
Data licence   Unknown
Data format   CSV, JSON, RDF, TSV, XML
Reviewer   Jonathan Brier
Submitters   Jonathan Brier
Last modified   Sun Mar 04 2018 21:40:52 GMT+0000 (UTC)