The devil's in the data

Straight from the Source

Everything we share is sourced from publicly available data served online, APRA public-records requests, government and historical archives, open datasets and Git repositories, and measurements we take ourselves.

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Land & Property

Assessor & parcels

Woonsocket assessor cards (Vision / VGSI) RIGIS parcels & E-911 sites City assessor database

Permits & zoning

Building & zoning permits (OpenGov) Zoning ordinance & district map

Ownership & foreclosures

Tax liens & delinquent rolls Registry of deeds (public records)

Money & Budget

City finance

Woonsocket adopted budgets RI Division of Municipal Finance RIDE school finance (per-pupil)

Federal spending

USAspending.gov (grants & awards) ARPA local recovery reporting

Voting & Elections

Election results & turnout

RI Board of Elections results RI Secretary of State election data Woonsocket Count Books 1950–2018ARCHIVE

Campaign finance

RI Board of Elections finance (ERTS)

Registration & eligibility

RI voter registration & status (VoteRI)

Candidates & officials

RI declared candidates & filings

Governance

Meetings & records

City Council agendas & packets City Clerk minutes & ordinances

Public-records requests

APRA requests we filedOURS

People & Economy

Census & demographics

US Census & American Community Survey IPUMS NHGIS historical census

Labor & business

BLS Quarterly Census of Employment (QCEW) RI Dept. of Labor & Training LMI

Housing

Princeton Eviction Lab HUD Fair Market Rents

Base Geography & Imagery

Aerial imagery

RIGIS statewide orthophotography (3in)

Elevation & LiDAR

USGS 3DEP & LPC RI Statewide (D22)

Roads, water & boundaries

OpenStreetMap (Overpass API) RIGIS hydrography & town boundaries City of Woonsocket ArcGIS hub (39 layers)

Infrastructure & Services

Streets & traffic

RIDOT roads & traffic (REST services) OSM signals & crossings (33 signals)

Public safety

RIDOT crash data (pedestrian)

Utilities

Streetlight inventory (RFP records)

Historical Archives

Historic maps

Sanborn fire insurance maps (LOC) USGS topoView historical topos

Buildings & landmarks

National Register of Historic Places HABS / HAER architectural survey

Photographs

FSA / OWI photographs (Delano, 1940) Providence Public Library mill photos

Our Own Measurement

Some of what you see, we measure ourselves, in the open. We fuse Rhode Island's three-inch aerial imagery with USGS LiDAR to read building heights, roofs, tree canopy, and street furniture, and we trace the footprints the public data misses. The heavy lifting runs on open-source engines, OpenCV and scikit-image for the vision work, PDAL and laspy for the point clouds, and Meta's Segment Anything for the tricky outlines, alongside Apple's on-device Core ML and Vision framework. It is all computed locally on our own Macs, no cloud and no black box. The inputs are the public datasets listed above, and the exact method is written up on our methodology page.

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