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🔹 Collect Building Permit Data from Wisconsin Municipalities
👤 Client: 🇺🇸 USA Member since 2025-01-14
💰 Price: ****
🚩 Problem: Systematically gather and structure building permit data for a property data platform.
📦 Existing: Not specified

Specifications:

[Target] Identify sources of building permit data across 1,800 municipalities in Wisconsin.
[Method] Systematic online research, direct downloads, and email requests to municipalities.
[UI/UX] Not applicable (data collection).
[Stack] Web scraping tools, spreadsheet software, shared folder system.
[Security] Ensure compliance with data privacy laws; secure communication channels for requests.
[Format] Structured JSON or CSV files.

Workflow:

1. Categorize municipalities into regions to manage workload efficiently.
2. Develop a standardized process for identifying permit data sources (websites, portals, reports).
3. Implement web scraping tools to extract data from identified sources.
4. If data is not publicly available, use provided email templates to request records.
5. Upload collected data to a shared folder and record source information in a spreadsheet.