On Wed Sep 2 14:25:52 2015 GMT+0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We can map barriers and visible dividing marks, but land ownership has > > massive privacy and data protection issues. > > > Depends on the region. I've even heard it from county officials > (incorrectly!) citing this regarding trying to get address centroids here > (even though I'm not interested in who owns the land or even necessarily > what the property lines are, just where one can expect to find an address > along a street, and only requested the centroids; see the OKGIS archive > from August for how that went). But in most (all?) of the US, land > ownership (and vehicle ownership, for that matter) records are open and > subject to public inspection, and why land transfers are typically > published conspicuously in the regional news perodical of record. Which is > why landowners get phone calls by name from roofing contractors after > storms have gone through, and why you'll get junkmail from lawyers and body > shops if your plate number (or sometimes even a similar one if someone > fudged it, as I discovered when someone in Ohio who has the same plate > number as me was apparently involved in a bad wreck) was reported in an > accident. > That is scary,and the reason most home numbers in the UK are ex-directory/unlisted. It prevents cold-callers having a foot in the door.
The phonebook is a fraction of the size it was when I was a kid. Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
