“Headless” means the back end is decoupled from any front end. A headless API delivers data and functionality through clean, structured endpoints and leaves the presentation layer entirely to the consumer. The same API can power a public website, an internal dashboard, a GIS tool, a mobile app or a machine-to-machine integration — without being tied to any one of them.
Neighbourly is a headless API: it ships no mandatory UI and makes no assumptions about what you build. Governments and their vendors can build citizen-facing portals, planning tools and reporting systems directly on the same endpoints, querying by coordinate, address or boundary and rendering the results however their application requires.
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Headless API is part of the Neighbourly data platform. Explore the API or browse the data layers.