Cadmappers Now

Governments are starting to notice. Several European cities have hired known Cadmappers to build public land registries. The reaction from the real estate lobby has been predictably hostile: bills to “privatize” property records have been introduced in three U.S. states.

Meanwhile, the Cadmappers keep working. Late at night. Over coffee. Matching a parcel ID in rural Georgia to a deed signed by a now-defunct LLC to a tax haven leak from 2017. cadmappers

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. Governments are starting to notice