Talking Headways Podcast: Mapping the Land

By Jeff Wood
Feb 21, 2019

This week, we chat with Jerry Paffendorf, co-founder and CEO of Loveland Technologies, about how the company collects parcel data from all over the country, how parcels were measured historically, and how they can be used to create better transparency in cities.

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