Permit records, parcel data, and GIS

Planning Operations

What County Planners Actually Spend Their Time On: The PDF Problem

Alicia J. Keyes · June 17, 2026

Document Intelligence

From PDF to Parcel Record: How AI Extraction Works on Land-Use Documents

Marcus Chen · May 20, 2026

Data Quality

The Reconciliation Problem: When Inspection Records and Parcel Data Do Not Agree

Priya Varghese · April 8, 2026

Permit Expediters

Permit Expediters and Violation History: What the Research Process Currently Looks Like

Alicia J. Keyes · March 5, 2026

GIS Integration

GIS Integration in Local Government: From Data Silos to Searchable Layers

Priya Varghese · January 28, 2026

Archive Management

Inside a County Permit File Archive: What Gets Scanned, and What Gets Lost

Marcus Chen · January 3, 2026

Code Enforcement

Code Violations in County Data: How They Are Filed, Tracked, and Lost

Alicia J. Keyes · November 26, 2025

Planning Operations

Searchable Records vs. Document Archives: A Distinction That Matters for Planning Departments

Alicia J. Keyes · October 22, 2025

Regional Focus

Mountain West County Records: Why Land-Use Archive Quality Varies So Much

Priya Varghese · September 10, 2025

GIS Integration

Adding Inspection Records to a GIS Layer: Field Definitions and Geometry Choices

Marcus Chen · August 1, 2025

Document Intelligence

Parcel Data in Legacy Formats: Working With What Counties Already Have

Priya Varghese · June 20, 2025

Document Intelligence

Building an AI Pipeline for Government Documents: Design Decisions That Matter

Marcus Chen · May 7, 2025

Archive Management

What Makes Scanned Government Records Hard to Parse, and What to Do About It

Marcus Chen · February 3, 2025