[OSM-talk] Public notary (Map feature POI proposal)

[John Smith]

2010/1/8 John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>:
> In the USA, a Notary Public merely attests that the person who signed a document showed official identification to prove their identity matched the name on the document.

The only notary in Australia that I know of is in the US embassy in Sydney.

Here, JPs are only supposed to witness you signing something although
most of them usually have a read through what ever you're signing
because they're nosey, but they don't check your ID.