I can't even get my County to release their parcel GIS data under the
public domain or similar open license. I also can't get my local tax
assessor to give me a dump of their APN data.
It seems a little fishy when a corporation can get access to all the
data for a County, but your average citizen who lives in that County
can't. I'd love to see a national initiative to loosen the access
restrictions to parcel data that your average citizen (or land surveyor)
bumps into. Transparency in government is a good thing. (I'm not talking
about aggregation of public data. That is something companies have a
right to get paid for.)
My two cents.
Landon
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Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Parcel power- Industry-Leading Provider
NowCovers 3100 Counties
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.
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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.
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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
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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
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retain their business."
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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
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mortgage backed securities
* 550+ million historical transaction
records and data spanning more than 40 years
* The nation's largest contributory
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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
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About CoreLogic
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CoreLogic began trading under the ticker CLGX on the NYSE on June 2,
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