Starting this month, the data behind our hosted web services is refreshed every week. If you use the Landrecords API — the tile services, WMS/WFS parcel lookups, or the coverage map — the parcels you query now reflect updates from our processing pipeline within days of us ingesting them, instead of waiting for the next quarterly release.

What’s changing

Until now, the hosted API served the same quarterly snapshot as our downloadable dataset releases: counties we refreshed in March wouldn’t show up behind your API key until the quarterly cut shipped. That batching made sense when the API was young, but our pipeline has long been ingesting and harmonizing counties continuously — the quarterly cadence was an artifact of packaging, not processing.

We’ve now decoupled the two. Every week, the serving database behind api.landrecords.us is updated with the latest harmonized data, and the tile caches are refreshed to match. Concretely, that means:

• New and updated parcels appear weekly. When a county publishes new boundaries, splits, or merges and we ingest them, they show up in your tiles and WFS queries the following week — not next quarter.
• Attribute refreshes land faster. Ownership transfers, new assessments, and sale records flow through on the same weekly cycle.
• The coverage map stays current. The county_coverage and state_coverage layers now track our actual ingestion state week to week, so what you see on the coverage map is what the API serves.

Nothing to change on your end

This is a data-freshness upgrade, not an API change. The endpoints, layer names, authentication, and schema are all exactly as before — your existing integration keeps working and simply gets fresher data:

• Vector tiles: https://api.landrecords.us/pro/gwc/service/tms/1.0.0/pro:parcel_us@EPSG:3857x2@pbf/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf
• WMTS / tiled WMS: https://api.landrecords.us/pro/gwc/service/wmts
• Parcel detail lookup: https://api.landrecords.us/pro/wms and https://api.landrecords.us/pro/wfs

Because our data explorer runs on the same service, it benefits too — searches and map views there reflect the weekly refresh automatically.

What about the quarterly releases?

The versioned quarterly releases aren’t going anywhere. Bulk downloads continue to ship on the quarterly cadence for now.

Get started

If you’re already a web service subscriber, there’s nothing to do — you’re on the weekly cycle now. If you’ve been building against stale local extracts and want live parcels in your application instead, take a look at the Parcel Layer Managed Web Service and the Web API documentation, or reach us at hello@landrecords.us — we’re happy to help you get connected.