Method — parcel ownership
Where parcel data comes from
Every parcel boundary and owner name on OpenHunt comes from a government record: county assessor rolls and state cadastral programs that publish them openly. We re-process public records; we do not buy ownership data, and we never sell it. Each source, its terms, and its license call is recorded in the open source registry — the same files a self-hoster builds from.
What we publish
Owner name as the assessor records it, the parcel’s physical (situs) address, acreage, county, and the assessor parcel number. That is the same information any county lets you look up at the counter or in its own web viewer — hunters use it to know whose gate to knock on.
What we never publish
- Owner phone numbers — even where a county includes them in open GIS.
- Mailing addresses beyond the parcel’s own location.
- Data from sources whose terms do not allow republication. This is why most of California shows no private ownership: the only statewide fabric is commercially licensed, so we carry county rolls only where assessors publish openly — adding a county is one YAML file.
Request a removal
If a parcel you own shows your name and you want it removed, email support@openhuntmaps.com with the county and parcel number. We acknowledge within 48 hours, and the name is blanked from the published map at the next data build — permanently, across every future refresh. The parcel boundary itself remains (it is public cadastre and carries no name). Requests under officials’-safety statutes such as California Government Code §7928.215 are honored on the same schedule, first.
The removal list is applied inside the open pipeline itself (sources/suppressions.yaml), so a removal survives every republish and every mirror built from this code.
Questions about the rest of the data? Start at the draw methodology, the wind model, or the conditions score — everything we compute is published.