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Landgrid Parcel Data - May 2021 Update

By Sahana Murthy on May 4, 2021 · How-To

Dear Friends of Loveland Parcel Data and landgrid.com,

A summary of updates in April of 2021 and the upcoming pipeline is below. 

Key Data Stats:

  • Average parcel age - 210 days, up from 208 last month.
  • Average county age - 260 days, up from 258 last month.
  • Refreshed 15,302,140 parcels and 271 counties since last month.

USPS Vacancy, Residential indicators: Now updated monthly. Updated in April 2021, next update in May.

Coverage Report: Updated for this month and available here

A Data Dictionary for the Loveland Parcel Record Schema is always available here

A machine-readable version of this list is included in the `verse` table available in all the formats above as well as CSV format for use in spreadsheets. To find the latest updates in verse, sort by 'last_refresh' and use the 'filename_stem' column to identify the file.

Data refreshed or added from the county in April and live now:
( Asterisk * indicates newly added county)
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CA
- Mendocino, Orange, San Diego

DC
- Washington

FL
- Lee

IA
- Delaware, Floyd, Fremont, Keokuk, Mahaska, Mills, Page, Plymouth, Sioux, Winnebago, Worth

IL
- Fulton, Grundy, Jersey, Knox, McLean, Peoria

IN
- Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, DeKalb, Delaware, Dubois, Elkhart, Fayette, Floyd, Fountain, Franklin, Fulton, Gibson, Grant, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jasper, Jay, Jefferson, Jennings, Johnson, Knox, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake, LaPorte, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Martin, Miami, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Noble, Ohio, Orange, Owen, Parke, Perry, Pike, Porter, Posey, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Starke, Steuben, St. Joseph, Sullivan, Switzerland, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Union, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Warren, Warrick, Washington, Wayne, Wells, White, Whitley

KS
- Anderson, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Jewell, Mitchell, Smith

MD
- Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Kent, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Somerset, St. Mary's, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, Worcester

MN
- Benton, Big Stone, Mahnomen, Marshall, Martin, Sherburne, Swift

MO
- Atchison, Holt

ND
- Grant, Hettinger, Sioux, Traill

SD
- Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Kingsbury, Lincoln

TX
- Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Aransas, Armstrong, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Borden, Bowie, Brazoria, Brewster, Brown, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Cameron, Cass, Castro, Chambers, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Collin, Collingsworth, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Crockett, Culberson, Dallas, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Delta, Denton, DeWitt, Dickens, Eastland, Ector, Edwards, El Paso, Falls, Fayette, Foard, Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone, Frio, Gaines, Galveston, Gillespie, Glasscock, Goliad, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hardeman, Haskell, Hemphill, Hidalgo, Hill, Hood, Houston, Hudspeth, Hunt, Irion, Jack, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Johnson, Jones, Karnes, Kendall, Kenedy, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Kleberg, Lampasas, La Salle, Lavaca, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, McLennan, Menard, Midland, Mitchell, Montague, Montgomery, Morris

VA -
Culpeper, Prince William

In the current pipeline for updating in May 2021
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Maine
Montana
New Hampshire
Texas

In the pipeline for updating in June 2021
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Alabama
Connecticut
Texas

Based on feedback and county challenges, pipeline planning is always subject to change. As always, please contact us if you have any questions about accessing or using the data, you find issues with any of our data, or you have any comments or questions about our data in specific areas or states. We also love to hear from you about which counties or regions you’d like to see us update next, as it helps inform our planning process.

Happy Mapping!

 

Hiring: Sales Development Representative

By Mary Lorene Carter on April 21, 2021 · Announcements

Sales Development Representative(Remote)

LOVELAND Technologies LLC

 

Role:

1. Execute company processes to convert inbound leads into Sales Qualified Leads (SQL) with a hand-off to an Account Executive

2. Parse all inbound communications and direct into appropriate processs and responsible party

3. Execute company outbound lead development programs, advancing leads into Sales Qualified Leads with a hand-off to an Account Executive

4. Regularly report on quantity, velocity, quality and conversion of leads into SQLs

5. Participate in team meetings and department strategy sessions

 

Expectations:

Deliver results. Handle the volume. Be effective with prioritization and diligent with follow-up.

Build relationships. Work closely with the sales organization and other company teams to further develop the lead into SQLs

Become an expert. Leverage the CRM and be diligent about creating/managing all data and activities.

 

You:

Customer oriented with a high level of professionalism

A commanding desire to learn and succeed in tech sales

Responsive, friendly, and thoughtful in your communications; effective in communicating ideas and information, both written and verbal

Coachable—you don’t just go through the motions and do what we say. You’re self-aware. You reflect, listen to others’ feedback, give yourself feedback, and make changes

Ability to learn new concepts, retain large amounts of information, and adapt to a changing work environment

You are comfortable on the phone and don’t shy away from the phone or favor only electronic means of communication

Motivated and goal oriented

 

Pay level:

45K - 55K  80-90% base

 

To apply:

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@landgrid.com

 

About LOVELAND Technologies LLC

LOVELAND Technologies is a Detroit-based nationwide parcel data & mapping software company and we run the site landgrid.com. We are headquartered in Detroit, however we are a remote & distributed team with members of the team working out of multiple locations across the USA. 

Landgrid Parcel Data - We have collected and standardized a high quality nationwide dataset of over 149 million land parcel data, covering over 98% of residents in the USA. 

We offer our data services in multiple formats to customers across all private and public sector verticals as bulk data files & API. Over the last several years we have created a successful suite of products, a growing customer base and project portfolio and an effective organization. We also have a Mapping as a Software product that allows our customers to map & survey with the parcel data we have collected.

April 2021 - Parcel Data Update

By Sahana Murthy on April 9, 2021 · How-To

Dear Friends of Loveland Parcel Data and landgrid.com,

A summary of updates in March of 2021 and the upcoming pipeline is below. 

Key Data Stats:

  • Average parcel age - 208 days, down from 209 last month. 
  • Average county age 258 days, down from 267 last month.
  • Added 936,443 parcels and refreshed 214 counties, added 52 new counties  since last month.
  • In Q1, we refreshed a total of 666 counties.


USPS Vacancy, Residential indicators: Now updated monthly. Updated in March 2021, next update in April.

Coverage Report: Updated for this month and available here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q0PZB72nO8935EMGmsh3864VjEAMUE-pdHcPkoAiS5c/edit#gid=333965283 


Full Dataset Export - We have exported the full dataset again this month for all clients to reflect improvements we made based on feedback regarding our Loveland Standardized Use Codes.

For all full dataset customers, the updated data is available for download to bulk data clients in these formats: GeoPKG .gpkg (suggested), GeoJSON, Shapefile, and Postgres SQL files.  In addition, this data has been updated on the landgrid.com website.

If your organization uses a custom export we are updating your data at the moment and if you don’t see the latest updates, please drop us a line.

A Data Dictionary for the Loveland Parcel Record Schema is always available here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14RcBKyiEGa7q-SR0rFnDHVcovb9uegPJ3sfb3WlNPc0/

A machine-readable version of this list is included in the `verse` table available in all the formats above as well as CSV format for use in spreadsheets. To find the latest updates in verse, sort by 'last_refresh' and use the 'filename_stem' column to identify the file.

Data refreshed or added from the county in March and live now:
( Asterisk * indicates newly added county)
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Alaska - Anchorage, Denali Borough*, Dillingham Census Area, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Haines Borough, Juneau, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Kodiak Island Borough, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Nome Census Area, North Slope Borough, Petersburg*, Sitka, Skagway, Wrangell, Yakutat

California - Los Angeles

Colorado - Chaffee*, Prowers*

Iowa - Benton, Clay, Dickinson, Fayette, Howard, Jasper, Lyon, Mitchell, Poweshiek

Idaho - Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Benewah, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Bonner, Bonneville, Boundary, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, Clearwater, Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Idaho, Jefferson, Jerome, Kootenai, Latah, Lemhi, Lewis, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Nez Perce, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, Shoshone, Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington

Illinois - Cass*, Champaign, Christian, Macoupin, Montgomery*, Ogle

Indiana - Brown

Kansas - Chase, Doniphan, Harvey, Kingman, Marion, Ottawa, Reno, Republic

Michigan - Allegan, Baraga*, Berrien, Branch, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Eaton, Emmet, Gladwin, Hillsdale, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Kent, Keweenaw, Leelanau, Lenawee, Macomb, Midland, Missaukee, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, Ogemaw*, Roscommon, St. Clair, St. Joseph, Washtenaw, Wayne

Minnesota - Blue Earth, Dakota, Douglas, Faribault, Grant, Houston, Kanabec*, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Morrison, Murray, Pennington, Red Lake, Redwood, Roseau, Wabasha, Watonwan*

Missouri - Pettis, Platte

North Dakota - Burleigh, Emmons, Morton, Sheridan

Nebraska - Scotts Bluff

Nevada - Carson City, Churchill, Clark, Douglas, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Pershing, Washoe, White Pine

New York - Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond

Ohio - Crawford, Lucas, Washington

Oklahoma (all newly added) - Adair, Atoka, Beaver, Blaine, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cimarron, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Craig, Creek, Custer, Delaware, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant, Greer, Harmon, Harper, Hughes, Jefferson, Kay, Kingfisher, Latimer, Le Flore, Logan, Love, Major, Marshall, Mayes, McClain, McCurtain, McIntosh, Noble, Nowata, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Payne, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Roger Mills, Seminole, Sequoyah, Stephens, Texas, Tillman, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington, Washita, Woods, Woodward

Oregon - Washington

Pennsylvania - Clearfield

Rhode Island - Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington

South Dakota (all newly added) - Brookings, Brown, Clark, Codington, Haakon, Harding, Hughes, Hyde, McCook, Walworth

Texas - Harris

Vermont - Addison, Bennington, Caledonia, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, Orange, Orleans, Rutland, Washington, Windham, Windsor

Wisconsin - Milwaukee


In the current pipeline for updating in April 2021
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Indiana
Maryland
Puerto Rico


In the pipeline for updating in May 2021
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Alabama
Connecticut
Texas


Based on feedback and county challenges, pipeline planning is always subject to change. As always, please contact us if you have any questions about accessing or using the data, you find issues with any of our data, or you have any comments or questions about our data in specific areas or states. We also love to hear from you about which counties or regions you’d like to see us update next, as it helps inform our planning process.


Thank you for being a part of Loveland!

Happy Mapping!

 

 

Hiring - Part-Time Parcel Prospector (Remote)

By Sahana Murthy on April 6, 2021 · Announcements

 

Part-Time Parcel Prospector (Remote)

 LOVELAND Technologies LLC

This listing is now closed.

We’re looking for someone who can help us grow and maintain our data collection. This is a part-time, remote position. 

This is the perfect opportunity for anyone who is looking to explore a career in a new industry - software & data in the data and startup space. Lots of opportunities for growth in a fun, flexible, remote & fast paced environment. We are growing and we want you to grow with us.

The ideal candidate needs to be a motivated self-starter, a team player and have a keen interest for data, public data sources & curiosity to learn new skills.

 

The work

This position will involve obtaining, standardizing, and cleaning parcel data provided by counties or other levels of government. A keen eye for detail is appreciated, as is thoroughness. The day to day process for this individual would involve working closely with the Geographic Data Manager to obtain and process these counties as part of Loveland's parcel workflow. 

 

Core skills we’re looking for: 

  • An inquisitive mind and desire to learn data tools and techniques
  • Attention to detail and the ability to find patterns and problems in complex information
  • Experience working with tabular data (for example, Excel files and CSVs)
  • Experience writing straightforward SQL queries (selects, basic joins), or a history of learning similar technical skills. We provide training on how to use a database client to load and query data. 

Bonus points: 

  • Familiarity with the basics of GIS, or a desire to learn. Maybe you’ve used QGIS, ogr2ogr, Mapbox, CartoDB, GeoJSON, or other geospatial tools and formats
  • Some level of familiarity with US County government structure and/or parcel data
  • Some experience in PostgreSQL and PostGIS greatly appreciated 
  • Some familiarity with GitHub and GitHub workflow
  • Familiarity with the Mac or Linux command line (ability to navigate directories, move and delete files, run commands)
  • Beginner knowledge of a programming language like ruby, python, or javascript, and/or a desire to learn 
  • You have a portfolio of data-focused projects you’ve contributed to, and/or you’ve published your code on GitHub or elsewhere

 

In this job, we will ask you to:

  • Quickly evaluate data quality and decide if it meets our standards
  • Clean and explore data in Postgres
  • Use our internal tools to download records from government websites
  • Learn skills related to collecting and managing geodata
  • Interpret and convert 3rd party data to our internal schema

Goals

  • Gain experience in core data science concepts, including data quality analysis and SQL
  • Learn & build skills in geospatial data & data cleaning
  • Support the data team by analyzing specific datasets

 

Rate & hours 

$20/hour for 15-20 hours per week as a remote contract position; 3-month extendable term ideally starting in May 2021.

 

To apply

This listing is now closed.

 

About LOVELAND Technologies LLC

LOVELAND Technologies is a Detroit-based nationwide parcel data & mapping software company and we run the site landgrid.com. We are headquartered in Detroit, however we are a remote & distributed team with members of the team working out of multiple locations across the USA. 

Landgrid Parcel Data - We have collected and standardized a high quality nationwide dataset of over 149 million land parcel data, covering over 98% of residents in the USA. 

We offer our data services in multiple formats to customers across all private and public sector verticals as bulk data files & API. Over the last several years we have created a successful suite of products, a growing customer base and project portfolio and an effective organization. We also have a Mapping as a Software product that allows our customers to map & survey with the parcel data we have collected..