General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[dtkvictim]

You can see the land ownership in Kitchener's Open GIS system. It won't show actual transactions.

I was curious about this, so I had a look at the ArcGIS API. I thought it might be interesting to put up a dashboard of property ownership changes, though I'm not sure if these changes would map 1:1 with "transactions". Unfortunately neither versioning nor archives are enabled for the "Property Ownership Public" dataset, so we can't look historically.

Before I email Open Data Kitchener asking if either of these can be enabled, is anyone here familiar enough with ArcGIS to know which would be preferred? I am feeling too lazy to read up on ArcGIS right now...

Also, am I correct that this dataset only exists for Kitchener addresses? Nothing for Waterloo?

If anyone is interested, there are 132711 properties listed. Of that, 11299 have public ownership information with 3088 unique owners.