tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post2089443690266843312..comments2024-01-07T06:31:21.493-07:00Comments on Walking Prescott: Those Pesky Rights-of-WayGranny Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07302978680897139954noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post-35843948345982631032007-09-27T11:26:00.001-07:002007-09-27T11:26:00.001-07:00Wow -- looks like I hit an exposed nerve!! SIL -- ...Wow -- looks like I hit an exposed nerve!! <BR/><BR/>SIL -- actually, many of those county maps were produced by Wide World of Maps long before GIS systems were all the rage. If they worked from <A HREF="http://mapserver.co.yavapai.az.us/parcelinfo/" REL="nofollow">county records</A>, those non-street streets actually do appear on the record -- I just checked!<BR/><BR/>Bro -- I'd say that one of those provisions certainly applies. BTW, if the county parcel map I just brought up is correct, much of the city's strip lies in the street and alongside the street.<BR/><BR/>pb -- there's nothing like a surprise, especially when it concerns real property!<BR/><BR/>Russell -- my first experience with on-line maps was the time I sent out-of-town visitors to MapQuest for a route to my house. The particular route took them over not one, but two cliffs.<BR/><BR/>brain -- re PV, you've just described how the west was won! My LH once remarked that the history of the United States was the history of real estate speculation on a major scale.Granny Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07302978680897139954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post-74321643672621096622007-09-27T10:39:00.000-07:002007-09-27T10:39:00.000-07:00hermano hit the nail on the head with adverse poss...hermano hit the nail on the head with adverse possession... As long as the property has been used for..I believe seven consecutive years.. in an open and continuous way, the person using the property can sue the owner for adverse possession. <BR/>I remember something about Macy's Department store in NY barricading the store owned alley one day a year. The other 364 it's used as a public thoroughfare. This brakes the chain of continuous use preventing NYC from claiming it as a street through adverse posession.<BR/><BR/>Also, when the developers of Prescott Valley toured the Midwest selling lots, they did so with a map of lots laid out flat as a pancake showing roads that were not built yet as well as some that will never be built, and selling lots in the bottom of arroyos that are unbuildable.<BR/>Of course, they were caught and tried and sentenced, but some of the people who picked a lot from that nice flat plat mep lost every cent they paid.Linda G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10363689622473649154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post-12907789446575873782007-09-27T07:24:00.000-07:002007-09-27T07:24:00.000-07:00When I checked a year or so ago Shinery Lane was d...When I checked a year or so ago Shinery Lane was done this way. Directions to my house from Willow Creek Road given by the three largest online mappers directed people to go up Shinery Lane, which does not go through. It is a gas line right of way though. A quick check shows that google maps has been fixed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post-78889331791531832492007-09-27T06:08:00.000-07:002007-09-27T06:08:00.000-07:00They certainly should get out more! I have walked...They certainly should get out more! I have walked streets here in Elmira, only to find that the map shows road where there is backyard. Also, I grew up on Brown Lane in Auburn, Mass; another road that didn't exist even when I lived on it.<BR/><BR/>Google Maps takes that folly to new heights, and shows a road that no longer crosses our river...pbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11568681879593734160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post-25948928698575342072007-09-27T02:37:00.000-07:002007-09-27T02:37:00.000-07:00Another term almost applicable is 'adverse possess...Another term almost applicable is 'adverse possession', although this usually is envoked when a dividing fence has been mislocated.<BR/><BR/>HermanoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post-4054473623697612372007-09-27T00:02:00.000-07:002007-09-27T00:02:00.000-07:00Two points...1. I refuse to refer to the folks di...Two points...<BR/>1. I refuse to refer to the folks discussed below as cartographers or geographers. They are neither.<BR/>2. Xeroxers, the people who spew out most of the street maps that are popularly available, commonly take vector data files, run them through some GIS software, and produce a 'map'. The vector data these people use as a base most often is produced by someone else...normally an underpaid technician working in some dimly lit closet somewhere.<BR/><BR/>Thus, the people who make our streetmaps never actually see the streets they map...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post-50560161153573632082007-09-26T23:59:00.000-07:002007-09-26T23:59:00.000-07:00Oh, that one. It's a map-only extension of Anderso...Oh, that one. It's a map-only extension of Anderson Hill Road where it meets (again) Beach Street. It's quite shear right there. I speculate: did Beach St. actually go up that hill & back down again, before being cut into the granite???<BR/><BR/>There's another possible explanation for the map maker's errors -- clasically, I was told, Rand McNally put imaginary features on maps as a way of protecting its copyright. If it (or its lawyers) found a map with these errors, it had a prima facie case.Granny Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07302978680897139954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20402991.post-29535275717579748382007-09-26T23:20:00.000-07:002007-09-26T23:20:00.000-07:00The one I like is the one where the "through stree...The one I like is the one where the "through street" is a real cliff, some 15 feet straight down...is it on Park? I can't remember, but I'm sure you know the one I mean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com