Trap Street
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Trap Street
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#2See also "Paper Towns"
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#3Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992748 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418586.
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#4Meet me in the trap, it's goin' down.
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#5This kind of thing goes back to '91 at least with Feist v. Rural when Feist copied telephone entries from Rural's directory which included some fakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
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#6I'm pretty sure this little accident happened as a result of a trap street near where I used to live:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22158829
The 'trap' was that on google maps it was made to look like a regular street when it clearly wasn't.
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#7See also "Canary Traps"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap
Apparently this is common practice in the movie industry - cast members are given slightly different versions of the script so that any leaks can be traced back to a unique individual.
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#8See also "Paper Towns" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement
Thank you! Google Earth / Maps’ Argleton came to mind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argleton
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#9See also "Paper Towns" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement
I particularly like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York since it turned into a real town behind the authors' backs.
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#10I'm pretty sure this little accident happened as a result of a trap street near where I used to live: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22158829 The 'trap' was that on google maps it was made to look like a regular street when it clearly wasn't.
I've found many errors in Google maps over the years. I'm not convinced any of them are traps, they are just the result of not actually surveying the areas they claim to map.