Property Owner Search

Property owner search based on Office of Property Assessment data

Organization
Volunteeers
Release Date
June 16, 2011
Data Types
GeoJSON
Categories
Real Estate / Land Records
Description
This application aims to fill a gap in the City of Philadelphia's Office of Property Assessment (OPA) web site: the ability to search by owner. Currently, the OPA web site enables you to search by address and view the owner information, tax balances, etc. as it is all public record, but it does not allow you to search by owner. This application was developed by several people as part of the Philly Tech Week Hackathon including:
  • Adam Hinz
  • Joanne Cheng
  • Tim Wisniewski
  • Mjumbe Wawatu Poe
  • Gil
The API accepts two parameters:
  • owner (req) - part of the name of the owner, returns possible owner matches
  • exact (opt) - if specified owner must exactly match a valid owner, returns all db information about the specific owner
The source code for this project is available at: https://github.com/timwis/OPA-Liberator
PhillyAddress Owner Search
PhillyAddress Owner Search
Organization
Volunteeers
Release Date
June 16, 2011
Data Types
GeoJSON
Categories
Real Estate / Land Records
Usage
Public use
Description
This application aims to fill a gap in the City of Philadelphia's Office of Property Assessment (OPA) web site: the ability to search by owner. Currently, the OPA web site enables you to search by address and view the owner information, tax balances, etc. as it is all public record, but it does not allow you to search by owner. This application was developed by several people as part of the Philly Tech Week Hackathon including:
  • Adam Hinz
  • Joanne Cheng
  • Tim Wisniewski
  • Mjumbe Wawatu Poe
  • Gil
The API accepts two parameters:
  • owner (req) - part of the name of the owner, returns possible owner matches
  • exact (opt) - if specified owner must exactly match a valid owner, returns all db information about the specific owner
The source code for this project is available at: https://github.com/timwis/OPA-Liberator
Update Frequency
Weekly
Coordinate Systems
4326, World WGS84, Geographic (lat/lon), decimal degrees
Contact Email
tim@timwis.com
Date Added
June 19, 2011, 4:29 p.m.
Last Update
Aug. 5, 2011, 6:35 p.m.
PhillyAddress Owner Search
PhillyAddress Owner Search

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Comments
pkerkstra
08/05/2011
This tool has come an incredibly long way since those first few hours at Philly Tech Week. It's the only way to search for Philadelphia property owners by name. It's a service that most cities provide as a matter of course. It is, after all, pretty essential community information. Thanks to these folks, it's available to everyone now. Awesome.