The assessor's office in my county provides data older than two weeks (iirc) as a few sql export dumps because that's how things were done back in the day.
Current information is gated behind a web2.0 view of their live data with severe limits. It wasn't designed to be scraped and is in fact hostile to the attempt. I'd imagine they're seeing rising hosting costs and that they'll keep rising.
I should reach out to them and see what this looks like from their angle. The local commercial real estate community is pretty tech-savvy and I'm wondering if we could all be a bit more proactive around data access.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on county vs state vs national data! I'd be very interested in any bandwidth usage or processing requirement info you might have recorded.
Current information is gated behind a web2.0 view of their live data with severe limits. It wasn't designed to be scraped and is in fact hostile to the attempt. I'd imagine they're seeing rising hosting costs and that they'll keep rising.
I should reach out to them and see what this looks like from their angle. The local commercial real estate community is pretty tech-savvy and I'm wondering if we could all be a bit more proactive around data access.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on county vs state vs national data! I'd be very interested in any bandwidth usage or processing requirement info you might have recorded.