cityofphiladelphia/li

Search an address to see its Licenses & Inspections history

L&I Property History

jQuery Mobile App use to pull Permits, Licenses, Violations and Appeals from the Department of Licenses & Inspections using the City of Philadelphia AIS and CARTO API.

Deploy instructions

The app is is deployed automatically using GitHub Actions to its S3 bucket whenever the master branch is updated through PR or direct commit

License

MIT

li's Issues

Error when no history found

The error heading displayed when no L&I history is found may be confusing. It should simply say, "No history found."

Results when address key is empty

If you search for 1834 FRANKFORD AVE # 18 the AIS response has an empty string for li_address_key. The app then queries Carto with:

https://data.phila.gov/carto/api/v2/sql?q=SELECT * FROM LI_APPEALS WHERE addresskey IN ('') ORDER BY date_scheduled DESC

And gets >1000 results for other addresses (basically anything where the addresskey is empty in Carto.

Routing for appeals

When you search for 1834 FRANKFORD AVE # 18 and click on an appeal, the app navigates to:

http://li.phila.gov/details?entity=appeals&eid=1028692&key=&address=1834+frankford+ave+#+18

Somehow the hash is disappearing from before details; as a result, if you refresh the page it tries to fetch a file called details and 404s.

Also, the address param should be URI-encoded so the number sign before 18 doesn't affect routing.