CIVIC PERMITREVIEW

The systems, rules, and operating record behind civic approvals.

Geographic datasets, services, series, features, and related resource descriptions · International geospatial metadata standard

Geographic information — Metadata — Part 1: Fundamentals

ISO 19115-1 defines metadata for identifying, describing, finding, assessing, accessing, and using geographic information and services.

Published standard with amendments and revision workVoluntary unless adopted through policy, contract, procurement, or another authority

What the authority record establishes

ISO 19115-1 defines metadata for identifying, describing, finding, assessing, accessing, and using geographic information and services.

Voluntary unless adopted through policy, contract, procurement, or another authority

The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.

Why it matters to this market

Parcel, address, district, overlay, hazard, inspection, and service-area layers need source, extent, date, quality, lineage, access, and ownership metadata before they can support accountable civic decisions.

Affected operating stages

  • Cataloging
  • Lineage
  • Quality
  • Distribution
  • Access
  • Maintenance

Capabilities to examine

Parcel Property And Address Master

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for parcel property and address master.

GIS Mapping And Spatial Integration

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for GIS mapping and spatial integration.

APIs Integrations And Data Export

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for APIs integrations and data export.

Documents Records Retention And Public Disclosure

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for documents records retention and public disclosure.

Workload Turnaround And Service Reporting

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for workload turnaround and service reporting.

Affected buyer audiences

  • GIS data stewards
  • permit administrators
  • integrators
  • records teams
  • vendors

Implementation questions

  • Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
  • What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
  • Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
  • Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
  • How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?

Interpretation boundary

Metadata does not establish that the underlying geography is correct, authoritative, current, legally controlling, or fit for a particular permit or land-use decision.