Public data for private buildings.
LodgingMap is an open-source civic data platform designed to map and organize extended-stay hotels and lodging properties across the United States. It brings together fragmented public records—such as deeds, tax filings, ownership registrations, and financing disclosures—into a unified, location-based system. The goal is to create a transparent, structured view of how lodging infrastructure is owned, operated, and financially supported.
At its core, LodgingMap focuses on geospatial organization, allowing users to explore properties by state, county, city, or ZIP code. Each listing is intended to represent a real-world property with linked metadata, including ownership entities, management companies, franchise affiliations, and historical changes over time. This makes it possible to trace how a single building evolves through sales, refinancing, or operational changes.
A key feature of LodgingMap is its financial and ownership intelligence layer. The system is designed to identify and classify different financing types, such as traditional bank mortgages, securitized CMBS loans, private equity acquisitions, and other publicly documented funding structures. By connecting these financial signals to individual properties, the platform helps reveal broader patterns in lodging real estate investment and control.
The platform also incorporates AI-assisted data processing to improve entity resolution, address normalization, and record matching across multiple public datasets. This includes detecting duplicate records, linking LLC structures, and organizing fragmented property data into coherent ownership networks. Additionally, LodgingMap includes a classification system for identifying properties with potential connections to housing programs or conversions, such as Section 202-related senior housing transitions, when supported by public records.
Overall, LodgingMap is designed as a transparency-focused infrastructure tool for researchers, civic technologists, and the public. It transforms scattered lodging and real estate data into an accessible, searchable map of hospitality properties and their underlying financial and ownership systems.
- LodgingMap — An open-source civic data platform that maps extended-stay hotels across the United States and connects them to public records, ownership structures, and financing data.