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Los Angeles County building import
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Should we drop building:units if there's more than one building per parcel? #82

Open jschleuss opened 8 years ago

jschleuss commented 8 years ago

I merged the assessor data to the buildings, but sometimes you get a couple buildings with the same AIN and the same start_date and building:units info. But it's likely that there are unique building unit totals for each building. So, in this example you might have two units in the left building and four in the right building. screen shot 2016-04-17 at 2 16 36 pm

We could drop those two fields based on a "totBuildingDataLines" field in the assessor data having a value greater than 1, which would signify multiple buildings per parcel. Floating this as an idea.

jschleuss commented 8 years ago

Errrr. A counter point I just realized is that you'd lose the building:units and start_date for a ton of single family homes with detached garages. So, maybe the over-counting of building_units is actually preferable. Or possibly we only do it for parcels tagged as "apartments."