What PISO knows, where the information comes from, and what the numbers mean.
Where does PISO's information come from?
PISO uses country-specific public and published sources rather than forcing every country into U.S.-shaped data. The U.S. pack uses sources such as Census, HUD, EIA, CMS, NCES, USDA, FCC and BEA; Spain, Canada and Mexico use their strongest national, regional and local equivalents. Open any category to see the exact source and geographic scope.
How current is the data?
There is no single update date because each source publishes on its own schedule. Census, school, price-level, and HUD releases are generally annual or fiscal-year data, while energy and retailer sources have their own schedules. PISO shows the relevant year, period, or data date and uses dated source snapshots rather than presenting every number as real-time.
Why do some locations show more information than others?
If Google identifies a specific property, PISO can show the full property view. If Google identifies a street or locality precisely enough, PISO can show nearby essentials and planning tools from that mapped point. When Google returns only a very broad administrative area, PISO suppresses misleading proximity unless the country provider has a defensible, explicitly sourced practical locality anchor; otherwise the result remains an approximation. Some regions also have less coverage from particular public datasets, and PISO leaves those categories out rather than inventing values.
How are school, grocery, and hospital distances measured?
They are straight-line distances from PISO's active information anchor, not driving distance or travel time. The anchor is normally Google's mapped point for the searched property, street, or locality. If a country provider replaces an unusably broad administrative centroid with a documented practical locality anchor, PISO updates the on-page INFO ANCHOR label so the starting point is explicit.
Does the local information change when I walk around in Street View?
No. PISO anchors its local information to the place you searched. Street View is there so you can visually explore the surrounding neighborhood; walking around inside Street View does not move the data anchor. Search a new place when you want PISO to describe a different area.
Does a nearby school mean a child can attend it?
No. PISO shows nearby schools from the strongest geocoded source available for that country. Proximity does not establish attendance boundaries, enrollment eligibility, school quality, language/program eligibility, or whether a particular address is assigned to that school.
Are the grocery results every store in the area?
No. Grocery coverage depends on the country: the U.S. pack uses qualifying USDA SNAP retailer locations, while countries without an equivalent national retailer registry can use clearly attributed mapped POIs. These are practical nearby results, not an exhaustive directory of every food shop.
Does PISO know whether a house is for sale or what the asking price is?
Not by itself. A property-site integration can supply an asking price, and you can always type a price into the mortgage calculator. Without that information, PISO does not claim that a property is for sale, not for sale, or listed at a particular price.
What does the mortgage estimate include?
The calculator starts with a supplied listing price when available, otherwise with the strongest defensible local home-value benchmark. You can change the price, down payment, interest rate, and term. Starting-rate assumptions and source links are country-specific and are never loan quotes. The estimate shows principal and interest; property tax is included only where PISO has a defensible local benchmark. Insurance, mortgage insurance, condo or HOA fees, maintenance and utilities are not included unless explicitly shown.
What happens to the location I search?
PISO uses Google Maps services to locate the place you enter and display Street View. The current PISO app does not have a customer account system or send your searches to a separate PISO analytics service. Google Maps requests are handled by Google. Use of Google Maps features and content is subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms and the Google Privacy Policy.
How current is the Street View image?
Street View imagery comes from Google, and the capture date varies by location. PISO does not control when Google photographed a road. The local cost information and the Street View image can therefore have different dates.