Why is this address not in the Parcel or Assessment layers?

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Overview

During evaluation your clients have been known to search for an address within the parcel or assessment layers and come up short. This does not mean we do not have this address, it means that the address is not physically populated in these files.

Why

Our parcel and assessment layers start with data from the tax assessor and/or county GIS department. The tax assessor assigns a situs address to their tax record along with a lot of property attributes. Situs address being the key here. LightBox methodology is to maintain the assessor situs address on the assessment records. In packages where we have combined the assessor data with the parcel data we also maintain the single assessor situs address.

Where are they?

We also maintain an address universe layer. This address universe layer contains both situs and secondary addresses each address also contains LightBox IDs that link back to the parcel, assessment and structure data. If you do not find the address in the parcel or assessment data you should search the address table.

How do I link the address back to the parcel?

SmartFabric packages, Core and Professional, provides a set of relationship tables to make this connection.

These tables will allow you to match the ADDRESS_LID on the found address to one of the layer. See the below table for the relation table reference.

Table Name	Description	Join Fields
AddressAssessmentRelation	Joins Addresses to Assessments (many to one)	ADDRESS_LID -> ASSESSMENT_LID
AddressParcelRelation	Joins Addresses to Parcels (many to one)	ADDRESS_LID -> PARCEL_LID
AddressBuildingRelation	Joins Addresses to Buildings (many to one)	ADDRESS_LID -> BUILDING_LID

Note:

LightBox SmartFabric Standard and Premium packages do not contain the address universe layer. To link an address the Geocoding API could be used which also contains this universe and returns LightBox IDs to link back to the parcel, assessment and structure.

LightBox Geocoding API

The LightBox Geocoding API is also a great solution when trying to match an address to the SmartFabric parcel or assessment data. If the address is found within our system with a precision code less than or equal to 21 the response will contain PARCEL_LID, ASSESSMENT_LID and BUILDING_LID.

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