APIs Release Notes

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10/07/2022

Addresses 1.2.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow '#' through our validation
    • Allow 1/2 through our validation
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

Parcels 1.2.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated Breadcrumbs to use Structure LID vs UBID (Non breaking change)
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

EPA v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

Schools v1.10

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

BuilderSites v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

Opportunity Zones v1.1.0

 

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

CBSA v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

States v1.2.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

Counties v.1.2.0

 

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

Cities v1.1.0 

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

Census Block Group v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

CensusTract v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

 

CensusBlock v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

Structures v1.2.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

 

NFHL v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
    • Added by Structure ID endpoint
    • Added by Assessment ID endpoint
    • Added by Address ID endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated address result logic to use the geocoded address response vs the parcel address when geocoded
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

Transactions v1.2.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added Health Check endpoint
    • Added pricePerArea in the response
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed bug in return Transactions by Assessment ID
    • Allow .5 Buffer distance to be passed through validation
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

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8/29/2022

Parcels v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added new endpoint for common ownership  by parcel id
  • Bug Fixes
    • Added Year Renovated in the payload
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
  • Other Changes
    • None

Addresses v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added nearest address to point endpoint. This is used as a reverse geocode option by sending in a wkt point (us only)
    • Added return all addresses on a parcel using a LightBox parcel id endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated autocomplete to take size parameter into consideration
    • Documented precision code on OAS spec
    • Removed hardcoded country code so that Canadian addresses can be returned
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Structures v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added return all structure by address endpoint
  • Bug Fixes
    • UBID id needed to be decoded "+" as it caused errors on the back end
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Assessment v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added new endpoint that returns the full owner portfolio by the LightBox assessment Id
    • Added return all assessments on a parcel via a LightBox assessment Id
    • Added return all assessments on a parcel using a point WKT 
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Transactions v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Added new endpoint to support return all transactions by fips code and date. This is used for synchronization steps to pull the counties latest transactions.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Census Tract v1.0.1

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None 
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Census Block v1.0.1

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None 
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Census Block Group v1.0.1

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None 
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings 
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Opportunity Zones v1.0.1

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None 
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

States v1.1.0

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Return all states when no parameters are passed in
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Cities v1.0.1

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Counties v1.0.1

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

 

PostalCodes v1.0.1

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

 

CBSAs v1.0.1

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • None
  • Bug Fixes
    • Updated spelling from espg to epsg in the $metadata object 
    • Updated $metadata BBox and totalRecords to be numbers vs strings
    • Updated location.representativePoint.longitude and  location.representativePoint.latitude to return as floats vs strings
  • Improvements
    • Added Global Error Handler to capture errors
  • Other Changes
    • None

Schools v1.0.0

  • Notes New API that supports returning school information based on address, geometry, district.
    • This endpoint returns both private and public schools
    • Uses school attendance areas to determine the schools that below to an address
    • Contains information around
      • Schools
      • Districts
      • Attandance Areas
    • Supports map tiling 
    • Supports spatial search
  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Schools by address
    • Schools by geometry
    • Schools by district
    • Schools by attandance area
    • Tile/WMS for mapping
  • Bug Fixes
    • None
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

 

FEMA National Risk Index v1.0.0

  •  Notes New API to work with the FEMA National Risk Index (NRI)
    • This endpoint returns the FEMA NRI for a census tract
  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • NRI by geometry
    • NRI by address
    • NRI by parcel Id
    • NRI by NRI Id
  • Bug Fixes
    • None
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

 

Superfunds and Brownfields v1.0.0

  •  Notes New API work with EPA Brownfields and Superfund sites
  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features 
    • Brownfields / Superfund sites by geometry
    • Brownfields / Superfund sites by parcel Id
  • Bug Fixes
    • None
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

 

6/13/2022

Notes:

Initial release of the LightBox Developer Portal along with a set of LightBox API's noted below.

  • Upgrade Steps
    • None
  • Breaking Changes
    • None
  • New Features
    • Released Products
      • Parcels
      • Structures
      • Addresses
      • Geocoding
      • Assessment
      • Transactions
      • Historical Assessed Values
      • Historical Tax
      • Census Tract
      • Census Block Group
      • Census Block
      • Opportunity Zones
      • City
      • State
      • County
      • Postal Code
      • CBSA
    • Released Endpoints
      • Parcels
        • Id
        • Address
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
        • Fips and APN
        • By Structure Id
      • Structures
        • Id
        • UBID
        • Address
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
        • Fips and APN
        • On Parcel
      • Addresses
        • Autocomplete
        • Search
        • Geometry
        • On Parcel
        • On Structure
        • Tile/BBox
      • Geocoding
        • Search 
        • Autocomplete
      • Assessment
        • Geometry
        • Address
        • Fips and APN
        • Id
        • Tile/BBox
      • Transactions
        • Assessment Id
      • Historical Assessed Values
        • Assessment Id
      • Historical Tax
        • Assessment Id
      • Census Tract
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
      • Census Block Group
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
      • Census Block
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
      • Opportunity Zones
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
      • City
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
        • Autocomplete
      • State
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
        • Autocomplete
      • County
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
        • Autocomplete
      • Postal Code
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
        • Autocomplete
      • CBSA
        • Id
        • Geometry
        • Tile/BBox
        • Autocomplete
  • Bug Fixes
    • None
  • Improvements
    • None
  • Other Changes
    • None

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