[OSM-talk] Abandoned Rails

[phil at trigpoint.me.uk]

On Wed Sep 2 14:25:52 2015 GMT+0100, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:23 AM, <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> 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)
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