Pull a municipality's published Pavement Condition Index dataset via its open-data API to benchmark a bid's condition assumptions against the city's own street ratings.
domain: Los Angeles GeoHub / data.lacity.org — 'Road Surface Condition Map' Socrata dataset · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Query the Socrata API endpoint for the LA Road Surface Condition Map dataset (data.lacity.org, dataset id d9rz-k88a) at its /resource/{id}.json endpoint.
Filter results to street segments bordering or near the job site.
Note the survey-date field, since the city's PCI values come from a periodic (roughly tri-annual) survey, not real-time sensing.
Use neighboring public-street PCI as a rough contextual proxy for a private lot's likely condition — not a substitute for an on-site survey.
Confirm the dataset covers city streets specifically, not private parking lots, before citing it in a bid.
Known gotchas
This open dataset covers public city streets, not private parking lots — treat it as neighborhood context, not a direct substitute for surveying the actual private lot.
Socrata dataset IDs and field schemas can change between portal migrations; confirm the current dataset ID and endpoint on data.lacity.org rather than hardcoding one found today.
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