Cadmappers build the ladders. In 2024, a loose coalition of Cadmappers released CadmapDB —a community-maintained index linking over 40 million property records to corporate registries. It’s clunky, incomplete, and legally fragile. It is also the most powerful anti-corruption tool most citizens have never heard of.
Then there are the other maps.
Using freedom of information laws, property tax rolls, satellite imagery, and a willingness to stitch together 3,000 incompatible county-level databases (many still running on MS-DOS), Cadmappers produce what no government willingly provides: a human-readable, cross-jurisdictional, accountable map of land ownership. Why does this matter? Because modern wealth hides in land. cadmappers