No, apparently this is no joke.Separating streets from state.
Our story begins with Google's Street View feature of its Google Maps, where they go around taking photos of basically everything as they go around towns. CNET.com has reported that a city in MN asked Google to remove all of the photos they had taken because of trespassing. The claim, they made, was that the entire city was privately owned. Google complained.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Private Roads And A City With No Government Property
LRC Blog reports on North Oaks,Minnesota: