# geometry # geometry Coordinate data for a property or parcel: point locations and polygon boundaries. Represents geographical coordinate data including single points and polygonal boundaries for properties and parcels. The question it answers ## What is this house, physically? The feature vector, taken from the source of record rather than from a listing agent. Assessor and parcel records are authoritative; listing fields are agent-entered, inconsistent between markets, and absent entirely for a property that was never listed. Other classes answering this question ## Why it matters The boundary is what makes spatial questions answerable — whether a parcel touches a flood zone, backs onto a commercial use, or falls inside a school attendance boundary. A point alone answers none of those. ## In practice Both forms are carried because sources publish both, and a centroid derived from a polygon is not the same as a geocoded address point. Which one a record holds determines which spatial queries can be trusted against it. ## Properties | Property | Type | Definition | | --- | --- | --- | | `source_http_request` | `object` | HTTP request configuration for retrieving this data. | | `request_identifier` | `string | null` | Identifier value that should be substituted into the source HTTP request to retrieve this specific data. | | `latitude` | `number | null` | Latitude coordinate of a single point location, ranging from -90° (South Pole) to +90° (North Pole). | | `longitude` | `number | null` | Longitude coordinate of a single point location, ranging from -180° to +180°. | | `polygon` | `array` | An array of coordinate points defining a closed polygon boundary. Requires at least 3 points to form a valid polygon. | ## Provenance and coverage A record of this class is validated against the same definition whatever jurisdiction it came from, which is what makes two counties comparable without a per-county adapter. A jurisdiction appears below only where a committed configuration serves this class's surface. - Lee, Florida - Palm Beach, Florida - Miami-Dade, Florida - Orange, Florida - Santa Clara, California How a new jurisdiction is brought online