Re-Post - Nationwide Parcel Data: From Cold, Metal Chains, to the Spatial Foundation of American Society, to your Database.

Reposted from Jerry Paffendorf’s guest blog on makepath.com https://makepath.com/parcel-data-landgrid/ —————————————————- Note about the author of this guest post: Jerry Paffendorf is co-founder and CEO of Loveland Technologies, makers of landgrid.com . Landgrid and makepath partner together on special projects. “In the mid-19th century, when the cold tongue of land that is the Michigan peninsula was first being sliced up for development, the surveyors began to discover problems with their measurements, particularly during the winter.