Notes on getting landlord data in the Twin Cities
- secretary of state Minnesota business filings API
- API beacon.schneidercorp.com
- qgis
Prior art? https://github.com/openaddresses/machine/issues/580
They seemed to be able to get basic stuff without too much dificulty? And i don’t think we care about the polygons, so maybe this first take is good? https://github.com/openaddresses/pybeacondump
Minnesota Secretary Of State - Business Data Available for Purchase
Active Business Data
The data file includes the business name and the primary address on record for each active business. The data is provided as a FTP file.
Getting the latest QGIS on Ubuntu
https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html is confusing.
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa
doesn’t seem to be working.
An older version is in the Ubuntu/PopOS store already, but maybe i should just use flatpak…