Where our data comes from

Serving building permits + planning applications from City of Campbell Open Data (ArcGIS).

Serving building permits + planning applications from City of San José Open Data (ArcGIS).

Confirming Cupertino's public permit data path (portal or open-data export).

Confirming Los Altos's public permit data path.

Los Gatos publishes permits through the Accela Citizen Access portal, which has no public developer API. We'll light this up the moment an authorized data feed (Accela API credentials or an open-data export) is available.

Santa Clara maintains an open-data portal; mapping its permit dataset for a live connection.

Confirming Saratoga's public permit endpoint. Goes live automatically once its portal is wired.

Sunnyvale has an open-data program; identifying the permit/planning dataset to connect.

Live transit service alerts, detours, and major-delay advisories for VTA, Caltrain, BART, Muni, AC Transit, SamTrans, and every other Bay Area operator, from the official 511 SF Bay GTFS-Realtime Service Alerts feed. Each alert is verified against 511 and tagged with its operating agency.

Current U.S. AQI and pollutant readings for served neighborhoods from the Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS). Keyless and live out of the box.

Recently issued and in-review building permits federated from Silicon Valley cities' official open-data portals (San José, Campbell, and more as they come online). Keyless and live; every record is verified against its city's permitting record.

Recent headlines from verified local publisher feeds across Santa Clara County — San José Spotlight (county-wide), Palo Alto Online, and town editions for Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Milpitas, and Gilroy. Keyless and syndication-friendly: only the headline, a short summary, and a link to the publisher's canonical article are shown, each verified against its source and aged out when no longer current.

Federated public-safety alerts from four official, keyless sources: active National Weather Service warnings and advisories, recent USGS earthquakes within the served region, active CAL FIRE wildfire incidents in or near the region, and open FEMA federal disaster declarations affecting the served counties. Every record keeps its own verified source and detail link.

Community events authored and AI-verified in the Event Management dashboard. Each event carries its own source verification.

City, county, and state legislation, agendas, zoning and development actions, ballot measures, and official public notices — federated from Legistar civic-meeting platforms, official government newsrooms, and OpenStates. Each item is verified against the official public record, linked to its source, and explained in politically-neutral plain language. Falls back city → county → state so the feed is never empty.

Public library branches for served neighborhoods, verified against Google Places (New). Live once the Google Maps server key is configured.

Parks, trails, and recreation areas for served neighborhoods, verified against Google Places (New). Live once the Google Maps server key is configured.

Open planning and development applications federated from Silicon Valley cities' official open-data portals. Keyless and live; every record is verified against its city's planning record.

Recent Sheriff's Office incident reports from the Santa Clara County Open Data portal — incident type, general location, and time. Keyless and live; every record is verified against the county's published dataset and shown with its report time.

Federated road closures, lane closures, construction zones, traffic incidents, highway message signs, chain controls, travel advisories, and CHP incidents from three official sources: the Santa Clara County Open Data portal (Roads & Airports Department), the 511 SF Bay Open Data (Open511) API, and the Caltrans QuickMap CWWP2 + CHP CAD public feeds. Every record keeps its own verified source and detail link.

Current conditions for served neighborhoods from Open-Meteo, a free public weather API. Keyless and live out of the box.

Verified local businesses from owner-claimed Business Dashboard submissions, confirmed against an official registry. Each profile is verified before going live.

Non-emergency service requests (311) from the city's Open311 endpoint. Verified against the city service-request record.

Upcoming elections, polling places, and key dates from the county registrar of voters and state Secretary of State. Verified against the official elections authority.

Local farmers markets, schedules, and vendors from the USDA Local Food Directories and official city listings. Verified against the operating organization.

Live MLS listings via a compliant RESO/IDX provider. Managed by the dedicated housing provider framework; status shown here, synced in its own panel.

Local job openings from partner employers and a licensed jobs aggregator. Verified against the posting's source.

Public and private schools, districts, and ratings from the National Center for Education Statistics and state education department. Verified against the official directory.

Power, water, and gas outage reports from the utility provider's outage feed. Verified against the issuing utility and shown with the report time.

Trash, recycling, and yard-waste collection schedules and service alerts from the city sanitation department. Verified against the operating department.