I'm not sure what the big deal is--it's typical American ingenuity...take something that is public, aggregate to the end of time, package and sell for a lot of money. I do it where I can. First American, LPS and other companies have a nice business in parcel data. It's a lot of hard work. They pay county government money for access and have significant data massaging operations. There's nothing any more sinister about CoreLogic than Experian/Equifax/Harte Hanks, etc...All these companies take 'public records'--DMV, arrest, tax assessor, credit behavior, etc....and create profiles of millions of Americans.
== Ian White :: Urban Mapping Inc 690 Fifth Street Suite 200 :: San Francisco CA 94107 T.415.946.8170 :: F.866.385.8266 :: urbanmapping.com/blog<http://urbanmapping.com/blog> On 17 Jun 2010, at 10:34, DNR wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to hear your feedback on this apparent milestone in privately held public data aggregation, and what you think the impacts are of this one company having control of so much data. Does the fact that it's publicly traded make a difference in the legal challenges that come up with public access to data? How so? I don't know the subscription costs to access this data and how their product displays whether the data is from public sources, or their proprietary ones - does it all just blend together into their product? Anyone work with CoreLogic, or First American, which spun off into CoreLogic? What's their reputation? I'm hoping there'd be some First American Spatial Solutions employees here who could chime in. Who's watching this data maintainer? -D — Industry-Leading Provider Now Covers 3100 Counties, More Than 1000 Counties Greater Than Its Closest Competitor — SANTA ANA, Calif., June 3 — (PRNewswire) — CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX<https://secure.ibsystems.com/GIS/nbc/members/moderators/CLGX>), a leading provider of information, analytics and business services, today announced that its industry-leading property level dataset now covers 3100 tax roll counties representing 99.8 percent of the U.S. population and 98.7 percent of all counties. With this expansion of county coverage, CoreLogic now exceeds its closest competitor by 1,000 counties. This public record county assessor data includes comprehensive property-level characteristics, land dimensions, legal descriptions, ownership, and tax and value information. This base information is then linked to a variety of transactional current and historical data, such as deeds, mortgages, pre-foreclosure and other involuntary liens as well as demographic, scholastic and trend information. "For our customers, data coverage, currency and depth are vital to their day-to-day operations," said George Livermore, group executive, data and analytics, CoreLogic. "This milestone enables our clients to access nationwide county-assessor-specific real estate data and leverage the growing suite of analytics built upon this information to grow and retain their business." CoreLogic maintains the most comprehensive repository of public, contributory and proprietary data in the United States, which combines property and mortgage information; legal, parcel and geospatial data; motor vehicle records, criminal background records; national coverage eviction information, payday lending records, credit information, and tax records. CoreLogic databases are continually updated and include: * 98.7 percent of U.S. real estate property records * 80 percent of mortgage applications * 85 percent of mortgage loan servicing performance information * 97 percent of loan level, non-agency mortgage backed securities * 550+ million historical transaction records and data spanning more than 40 years * The nation's largest contributory mortgage fraud database The company's proprietary algorithms and modeling capabilities allow it to analyze these information assets and other multidimensional data providing clients with unique analytics and customized outsourcing services. About CoreLogic CoreLogic is a leading provider of consumer, financial and property information, analytics and services to business and government. The company combines public, contributory and proprietary data to develop predictive decision analytics and provide business services that bring dynamic insight and transparency to the markets it serves. CoreLogic has built the largest and most comprehensive U.S. real estate, mortgage application, fraud, and loan performance databases and is a recognized leading provider of mortgage and automotive credit reporting, property tax, valuation, flood determination, and geospatial analytics and services. More than one million users rely on CoreLogic to assess risk, support underwriting, investment and marketing decisions, prevent fraud, and improve business performance in their daily operations. Formerly, the information solutions group of The First American Corporation, CoreLogic began trading under the ticker CLGX on the NYSE on June 2, 2010. The company, headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., has more than 10,000 employees globally with 2009 revenues of $1.9 billion. For more information visit www.corelogic.com<http://www.corelogic.com/>. <ATT00001..txt>
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