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Building code inspection data surfacing reports on particular properties from code enforcement officials. This dataset can be useful for tracking neighborhood blight and identifying problem landlords. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | Yes | |
| Available in bulk | Yes | There are several datasets related to code violations. One has all of the records and the others provide the parts needed to make GIS layers out of the data if desired. Each of these is downloadable at once individually, but the separate datasets need to be downloaded individually |
| Up-to-date | Yes | The data is up to date, but is updated several times per week, not every day |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | CSV, GeoJSON | Also available as ESRI REST API and ArcGIS Online Open Dataset |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | I went to data.tempe.gov and searched "code" | |
| licence_url | https://opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-zero/ | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | If someone just wants to see the list of code violation citations, then this is easily accesses through the dataset. If they want to see all violations associated with a parcel, they will have to work through creating a relate on the data. This requires some knowledge of GIS, but there is no way to provide a related dataset via an open data site. |
| collector_name | City of Tempe | |
| characteristics | Date received, Location, Type or description, Status (open, closed, etc.) | |
| location | https://data.tempe.gov/dataset/active-code-violations - Active Code Violations, https://data.tempe.gov/dataset/recently-closed-code-vio - Recently Closed Code Violations, https://data.tempe.gov/dataset/code-violations-records - Code Violation Records |
