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by rabble 3976 days ago
Seems cool, but it's missing a lot of listings. Compare the city's listing of permits at protlandmaps.com and buildzoom and you see lots of missing ones from BZ. It does have a nice UI and seems cool. Oh also you have to implement the zillow style grouping otherwise folks won't even zoom in enough to see the data you do have.
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Can you give me an example of a couple missing addresses? Thanks! We should have all of them, but we are dealing with millions of addresses from ~1000 data sources so we are still ironing out the wrinkles in the normalization, etc.
What sort of data sources? I'd imagine it's not simply government interfaces/APIs. Scraping?
that's http://portlandmaps.com for those confused