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Data sources

Every source, its licence, and how we get it

Data provenance is the product. This page is generated from the same registry the engines cite.

SourcePublisherKindAcquisitionRefreshReviewLegal basis for use
Harlow / Marston County parcel fabricCity of Harlow (fictional)demonstrationsyntheticstaticexpert reviewedAuthored by Groundline for demonstration and testing. Contains no third-party data.
Harlow Municipal Code Title 17 (Zoning)City of Harlow (fictional)demonstrationsyntheticon changeexpert reviewedOriginal text authored by Groundline. Not derived from any real municipal code.
Harlow County Assessor property recordsMarston County Assessor (fictional)demonstrationsyntheticquarterlyanalyst reviewedFictional records. Owner names do not identify any real person.
Marston County Register of DeedsMarston County (fictional)demonstrationsyntheticweeklyanalyst reviewedFictional records.
Harlow area transaction setGroundline (synthetic)demonstrationsyntheticstaticanalyst reviewedSynthetic transactions. In production, listing and closed-sale data requires an MLS data licence (IDX/VOW or a data-access agreement) or a licensed vendor feed; Groundline will not ingest MLS content without one.
Harlow regional construction cost basisGroundline (synthetic)demonstrationsyntheticquarterlyanalyst reviewedSynthetic parametric rates. Production rates come from a licensed cost service plus locally-collected bid data.
Groundline Reference Plan LibraryGroundlinedemonstrationmanual entryon changeexpert reviewedOriginal plan metadata authored by Groundline. No third-party drawings are stored or displayed.
Fulton County Tax ParcelsFulton County, Georgia (Board of Assessors / GIS)official gisarcgis restmonthlymachine extractedParcel geometry, address, ownership and assessed values are public tax records. Used for parcel identification, geometry and preliminary assessed-value context. Not a substitute for a boundary survey.
City of Atlanta Zoning DistrictsCity of Atlanta, Department of City Planningofficial gisarcgis reston changemachine extractedBase zoning-district geometry and class code, used to determine the governing district by centroid spatial join. The authoritative district for a parcel is an official zoning determination by the City; this is a preliminary indication only.
Dallas Tax Parcels (DCAD via City of Dallas)City of Dallas GIS / Dallas Central Appraisal Districtofficial gisarcgis restmonthlymachine extractedParcel geometry, account number, address and property class. Texas is a non-disclosure state, so sale prices are not in the public record and are absent by law.

Known limitations by source

Harlow / Marston County parcel fabric
  • Parcel boundaries are informational and are not derived from a boundary survey.
  • Easements are recorded only where a plat note describes a parallel strip; blanket easements are not modelled.
Harlow Municipal Code Title 17 (Zoning)
  • The contextual front setback in the HD-1 overlay cannot be resolved from the text; it requires a written determination.
  • C-2 dimensional standards are summarised from the district table rather than a dedicated section.
Harlow County Assessor property records
  • Assessed value is a tax basis and is not a market value indication.
  • Owner mailing addresses are withheld from all responses in the demonstration dataset.
Marston County Register of Deeds
  • Instrument text is not reproduced; only date, price and instrument type are structured.
Harlow area transaction set
  • Condition and effective age are self-reported fields and are the weakest link in any adjustment grid.
Harlow regional construction cost basis
  • Parametric rates are AACE Class 5 screening accuracy: −30% / +50%.
Groundline Reference Plan Library
  • Footprints are modelled as rectangles from published width and depth; articulated footprints will fit more tightly than the model suggests.
Fulton County Tax Parcels
  • Geometry is assessor cadastral data, not a survey; boundaries are approximate.
  • A parcel modelled as a MultiPolygon is reduced to its largest part for feasibility.
City of Atlanta Zoning Districts
  • The governing district is assigned by parcel-centroid point-in-polygon; a split-zoned parcel is flagged boundary-uncertain and requires an official determination.
  • District geometry gives the class code only; dimensional standards come from the zoning ordinance via the extraction pipeline, not from this layer.
Dallas Tax Parcels (DCAD via City of Dallas)
  • No sale prices (Texas non-disclosure); comparables require MLS/IDX or a licensed aggregator.
  • Base zoning district is NOT available from Dallas public GIS (zoning is published as ordinance case-tracts). Zoning for Dallas parcels is unavailable until the Development Code PD system or a licensed product is integrated.

Acquisition policy

  • Government open-data portals, GIS services and ordinance repositories, used under their published terms
  • Licensed vendor feeds under written agreement
  • MLS content only under an IDX, VOW or data-access agreement — never scraped
  • Customer-provided data, used only for that customer
  • Partner integrations under written agreement
  • No unauthorised scraping, and no ingestion of any source whose terms prohibit it
  • Owner mailing addresses and other personal data withheld unless the tenant is entitled to them and the use is lawful