Questions and answers

A free public guide to food, culture, travel and fashion in Los Angeles, kept by the people who live here. Neighbors add places and events, a reviewer reads each one, and a verifier from the neighborhood checks it in person. It is the data project beside the LA Unlocked series.

The guide is new and grows neighborhood by neighborhood, so a record is on the map only after a person has read it. If your block is quiet, you can change that: add a place, or ask your neighborhood council about taking part.

A verifier from that neighborhood went there, recorded what they saw and when, and is named on the record. Other records say “Reported by the community” or “From public records” until someone has visited. The label is always written out, never shown by color alone.

No. There are no stars, scores, top-ten lists or paid placements, and the database is built to refuse them. The guide tells you what is there, who checked it and when; what is best is yours to decide.

Yes. The list carries everything the map shows, so the guide works without the map, with a screen reader and on a slow connection. You can also filter to places a verifier found you can enter without a step.

Open “Add a place or event” and sign in with the contributor code the team gave you. The form takes about two minutes, and a reviewer reads the entry before it is published. Anyone can report a problem with a record without a code.

Verifiers are neighbors who visit places near them and confirm the details. They are paid a fee for each completed check, set by the editorial board, and they check only in their own neighborhood. The first group is being recruited through neighborhood councils, so ask yours.

Yes. Every record has a “Suggest a correction” button. If you added the record, you can download what you sent and withdraw it at any time; your words are removed and the plain facts stay in the history.

Yes, for free, including commercially. Each public record is under CC BY 4.0 or the Open Database License and says which, along with its source. Credit “LA Connected contributors” and keep the license with the data.

From contributors, from verifiers' visits and from public registers. Every source is listed in a register with its terms, and a record from a source that has not been cleared for public use is held back until it is.

Yes. Assistants may read the public pages and the API and quote records with credit and a link. The guide asks them not to invent ratings or rankings from it. The details are in llms.txt and agents.txt.

Nothing. Readers have no accounts, the pages set no cookies and load nothing from another company. “Near me” uses your location on your own device to sort the list; it is never sent or stored.

They are listed by name and neighborhood with no point on the map and no address. That detail is kept in a separate, restricted part of the database that the public pages cannot read.

No. LA Connected is an independent community data project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any government agency or event organizer, and it uses no one else's marks.

Share what you already publish: a calendar, a list of sites, a boundary file. It is credited to you, shown on the map and offered back as open feeds that your own tools and other partners can read. Write to the team through apiautomations.com.