Location Info Overview

The Location Info object is used to identify the demographics of addresses that are tied to a property, parcel or structure. This API carries a few key attributes for specific industries. One attribute, isBSL, is used by the broadband and telecom industries. The attribute isBSL provides an indication that a specific location is expected to be a target for broadband service or broadband addressable. The determination of whether or not a location is broadband serviceable is based on several factors, including the associated address’ residential / business indicator and the land use code of the primary parcel. If a location is determined to not be a broadband serviceable location, then the nonBSLReason is populated to indicate why the location is not addressable.

Another set of key attributes are the residential and business unit counts. Where the LightBox Address API contains a set of addresses tied to a property those addresses are all the possible addresses that could be at that address. The reason for this is that the main use case for Addresses is to feed our geocoder and addresses can come and go. The Location object residential and business counts are counts that represent actual addresses on that property. 

Features

• Developed for the broadband and telecom industry but has value for many other industries.
• Provides an attribute isBSL that denotes if a property is broadband serviceable or not.
• Provides estimated, on-the-ground residential and business address counts.
• Endpoints that return the Location Info object based on several LightBox IDs.
  • Return Location Info object based on LightBox Parcel ID.
  • Return Location Info object based on LightBox Address ID.
  • Return Location Info object based on LightBox Assessment ID.
  • Return Location Info object based on LightBox Structure ID.
  • Return Location Info object based on LightBox LocationInfo ID.
• Endpoint to return Location Info objects based on either census block or census block group geo ID. This capability is to help support broadband and telecom workflows. 
• Return Location Info objects based on a WKT geometry.
• The response object will contain links to all the related addresses to that location.