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PUBLIC RECORDS / SHARED WORLD

Explore a place. See its sources.

Geographic records, reported traffic and public camera availability share one spatial frame. Coverage varies by publisher and place.

Choose a place to read its public records. No live feed has been loaded.

Building footprints · parcel and zoning boundaries · road lines · reported events

Virtual exploration

Coverage and provenance

Available means a publisher response was read. It does not mean the place was visually observed. Camera listings never imply continuous street coverage.

Publisher / access and license limitsAvailabilityRecords
City of Raleigh — building footprintsOfficial public building layer also used by Property. Height values are retained in publisher units; their units were not independently verified for this registry, so height_m remains unknown. License unspecified. Checked 2026-10-28.public_read—
Wake County — parcel boundariesOfficial public GIS query. License not specified in inspected metadata; publisher rights remain. No redistribution license is inferred. Metadata checked 2026-10-28; live query availability is reported separately.public_read—
City of Raleigh — zoning districtsOfficial zoning geometry, subject to Property interpretation. HEIGHT is a zoning rule attribute, never measured building height. License unspecified. Metadata checked 2026-10-28.public_read—
City of Durham — building footprintsOfficial public city-limit footprint layer. No height or Z values are published; show outlines only. Source CRS EPSG:2264; requests use output EPSG:4326. License field blank; no redistribution grant inferred. Metadata checked 2026-10-28.public_read—
City of Durham — local streetsPublished local street geometry. WIDTH is feet; no speed unit inferred. Paper streets and abandoned street layers are excluded. Connectivity, direction and drivable state are not inferred from crossings. License field blank. Metadata checked 2026-10-28.public_read—
City of Durham — zoning districtsOfficial public zoning layer. OBJECTID is scoped to this source and may change after publisher replacement. Property owns rule interpretation. License field blank. Source CRS EPSG:3857; request output EPSG:4326. Metadata checked 2026-10-28.public_read—
NCDOT DriveNC — work zone eventsOfficial documented public WZDx endpoint. Feed not live-verified at configuration time. Work zones are reported events, not vehicle counts, speed measurements or complete traffic coverage. Preserve source units. No redistribution license inferred. Documentation checked 2026-10-28.public_read—
NCDOT DriveNC — traffic eventsPublisher developer key required; ten calls per sixty seconds. No credentials supplied or calls made by this pilot. LastUpdated is publisher event-update time, not a camera observation. Documentation checked 2026-10-28.key_required—
NCDOT DriveNC — public camera directoryPublisher developer key required; ten calls per sixty seconds. Webcam owns camera discovery and media policy. Publisher URLs are directory references only; no media retrieval, recording, detection or rebroadcast. Availability is not field-of-view coverage. Documentation checked 2026-10-28.key_required—

What is known, and what is missing

  • Building outlines do not reveal interior rooms or furniture.
  • Road centerlines do not establish a drivable network, junctions or traffic speeds.
  • Traffic events and camera directories have independent coverage and update schedules.
  • Public access does not grant an unspecified redistribution license. Follow publisher terms.