Property Owner Accountability

Mapping properties on the Montgomery County Rental Registry

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Scrapy

This is a Scrapy project.

Usage

This project uses Poetry for dependency management.

$ poetry install
$ poetry shell

Run the spider and output to a sqlite3 database:

$ scrapy crawl rental_registry -o output.db
$ # Open with datasette:
$ datasette output.db

Alternatively, you can output to a jsonl file for quicker reading:

$ scrapy crawl rental_registry -o output.jsonl

Docker & Datasette

The Dockerfile in this repo wraps up both the scraping and the datasette server. To build and run a container:

$ docker build -t rental_registry .
$ docker run -it --rm -p 8000:8000 rental_registry

After running, you can access the datasette server running on your local computer at http://localhost:8000

Whiteboard Notes

Complainer

• Form
• Confirm corrections

Government Compliance

• Audit
• Data Entry

Owner Public Compliance

• Updating Regularly
• Sale / Change of owner
• Change of agent

Lookup

• Public Safety
• Public Info
• Education

Brainstorming tasks

1. Compile Data - Rental Reg + Property ???
2. Geocode Data - Geocoder from Lotlinker
3. Mapit - Throw it into MontyLots
4. Other layers - As needed/desired
5. Repartioning - 311 Style

Additional Brainstorming

1. Existing registry list
2. Property DB
3. Compare & Find Noo
4. Non compliance list