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Isn't this bad for travellers who use maps to navigate ?
Isn't this bad for travellers who use maps to navigate ?
Not sure about you, but I always assume physical paper maps arent like 100% perfect and exaggerate on detail, I can't remember when in school I was taught this, but I since learned not to blindly trust maps, they're mainly good for a rough ballpark (INSANELY GOOD BALLPARK!).
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Not sure about you, but I always assume physical paper maps arent like 100% perfect and exaggerate on detail, I can't remember when in school I was taught this, but I since learned not to blindly trust maps, they're mainly good for a rough ballpark (INSANELY GOOD BALLPARK!).
When I was growing up, someone told me that a printed map is out of date before the ink dries.
Isn't this bad for travellers who use maps to navigate ?
Not sure about you, but I always assume physical paper maps arent like 100% perfect and exaggerate on detail, I can't remember when in school I was taught this, but I since learned not to blindly trust maps, they're mainly good for a rough ballpark (INSANELY GOOD BALLPARK!).
I found this the most interesting part: > Trap streets are not copyrightable under the federal law of the United States. In Nester's Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co. (1992), a United States federal court found that copyright traps are not themselves protectable by copyright. There, the court stated: "[t]o treat 'false' facts interspersed among actual facts and represented as actual facts as fiction would mean th…
I understand fake names and phone numbers are included in phone books for the same reason.
> In August 2005, The New Oxford American Dictionary gained media coverage when it was leaked that the second edition contained at least one fictional entry. This later was determined to be the word "esquivalience", defined as "the wilful avoidance of one's official responsibilities", which had been added to the edition published in 2001. It was intended as a copyright trap, as the text of the book was distributed electronically and thus very easy to copy.
Not to be confused with a trap house. Edit: okay, downvote me, but English is absurd sometimes. Imagine trying to teach a person who doesn't know English at all, from first principles, the extreme difference between a trap street and a trap house in common USA slang vernacular.