Data sources & credits

Listings in DoINeedAHomeInspector are compiled from the sources below. Each is named with the dataset it came from, the licence it is used under, and the credit that licence requires. Where a licence makes attribution a condition of use, that credit is reproduced here word for word.

• Connecticut eLicense / DPH

  Connecticut home-inspector licence roster, eLicense / Connecticut Open Data

  Licence:

  None stated (as-is public service) — Connecticut Open Data Portal terms

  Last updated from source:

  2026-05-23

  Terms read in full: no licence grant and no attribution requirement. Verbatim: "Publishable data made available on the Connecticut Open Data Portal shall be provided as a public service on an 'as is' basis."

• Florida DBPR

  Florida home-inspector licensee download, DBPR data-downloads extract

  Licence:

  NOT FOUND — channel blocked (HTTP 403 to our operator class)

  Credited as:

  Source: Florida DBPR — Florida home-inspector licensee download, DBPR data-downloads extract, https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/data-downloads/

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-29

  Both the downloads page and the data-file description PDF returned HTTP 403 to our operator class, so the licence text could not be read in this pass. A blocked read is not evidence that no credit is owed, so a plain source credit is given and the verbatim line is recorded as pending.

• Google Places — audited paid corpus (dated tags only)

  Google Places API business records, home-inspection vertical, April 2026 audited pull

  Licence:

  Google Maps Platform Terms of Service (credentialed paid API)

  Required credit:

  Google Maps

  Last updated from source:

  2026-04-15

  Google specifies the Google Maps logo, or the text "Google Maps" where space is constrained. Scope is the dated audited tags only; the bare `google_places` tag is a separate, unresearched authority and is never covered by this entry.

• Illinois IDFPR (via IL open data)

  IDFPR professional licence register, Illinois Open Data Portal (Socrata) extract

  Licence:

  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  Required credit:

  Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, via the Illinois Open Data Portal (https://data.illinois.gov/) — used under CC BY 4.0

  Last updated from source:

  2026-05-15

  Ratified 2026-09-09 on the data.illinois.gov catalogue's `license_id=cc-by` facet. The portal's own Terms of Service are generic platform terms that grant nothing for datasets, so the catalogue facet and the ToS disagree; the ratification resolves the conflict in the direction that OWES the credit rather than the one that withholds it. CC BY 4.0 requires reasonable attribution but does not dictate exact wording, so this line is composed to satisfy it. Closing this to HIGH means reading the IDFPR dataset's own metadata and the publisher's terms.

• Indiana PLA (access.in.gov / Versa)

  Indiana PLA home-inspector licence roster, access.in.gov (Versa) lookup

  Licence:

  NOT FOUND

  Credited as:

  Source: Indiana PLA (access.in.gov / Versa) — Indiana PLA home-inspector licence roster, access.in.gov (Versa) lookup, https://www.in.gov/pla/

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-08

  Page read in full. No terms of use, licence, attribution requirement or reuse restriction located on the agency site. A plain source credit is given rather than none, and the verbatim line is recorded as pending.

• legacy_pre_path_y (unknown provenance)

  Pre-PathY legacy rows — originating authority not recorded at load time

  Licence:

  No licence asserted — provenance not recorded

  Last updated from source:

  2026-05-09

  These rows predate the PathY provenance standard and carry no recorded source authority, so no licence can be asserted over them and no credit can honestly be given. They are listed here rather than omitted, because an omitted source on a credits page is a false provenance claim, not a shorter page. This is IRRECOVERABLE, not unresearched: it is not closable by reading a licence page.

• Massachusetts Div of Occupational Licensure (Accela)

  Massachusetts DOL home-inspector licence roster, Accela public lookup

  Licence:

  NOT FOUND — channel blocked (HTTP 403 to our operator class)

  Credited as:

  Source: Massachusetts Div of Occupational Licensure (Accela) — Massachusetts DOL home-inspector licence roster, Accela public lookup, https://www.mass.gov/orgs/division-of-occupational-licensure

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-05

  mass.gov returned HTTP 403 to our operator class on both the EOTSS API Terms of Service and the site terms. The recorded verdict notes that the permissive EOTSS API ToS attaches a non-endorsement attribution clause that our collection channel (the Accela portal) never satisfied. The non-endorsement statement above is therefore emitted, but it is OUR statement in our own words — the EOTSS clause itself could not be retrieved to quote, and is recorded as pending.

• Virginia DPOR

  Virginia DPOR home-inspector Regulant List

  Licence:

  NOT FOUND

  Credited as:

  Source: Virginia DPOR — Virginia DPOR home-inspector Regulant List, https://www.dpor.virginia.gov/RegulantLists

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-29

  Page read in full. Closest sentence, verbatim: "Regulant lists are provided free of charge in electronic format." No licence and no credit line is stated. A plain source credit is given rather than none, and the verbatim line is recorded as pending.

Source manifest: data-sources.json in doineedahomeinspector. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.