Trap Street
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#2Not 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.
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#3Related: (are there others?)
Trap Street - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17738847 - Aug 2018 (21 comments)
Trap street - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992748 - Jan 2013 (22 comments)
South Pacific Sandy Island 'proven not to exist' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4818584 - Nov 2012 (46 comments)
Not a Word: The story of Lillian Virginia Mountweazel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1504126 - July 2010 (10 comments)
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#4Isn't this similar to the concept of Paper Towns?
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#5I spent a number of years in mapping, global reconcillation of pre-WGS84 ellipsoids and datums with post GPS unification, national mapping projects etc.
There are many map arcana tales, yet another reason for "trap streets" - fake data infill, is to realistically fill voids left by top secret classified national security areas.
The UK Ordnance Survey famously produced rich detailed maps across all of the United Kingdom .. save for blank voids over naval shipyards, weapons testing, secret nuclear bunkers, etc . . .
Eventually somebody cottoned onto the reason these voided areas became magnets for Russian agents - nothing signified something of great interest.
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#6Isn't this similar to the concept of Paper Towns?
It's tangentially related to paper streets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street
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#7I can't find it now (so it may be an apocryphal story), but an Australian man went to one of these places, didn't find it and decided to set up shop.
It was already on the map, so he figured that it might as well actually exist.
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#8A natural spot to shout out Map Men on YouTube. [1]
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#9When you want to sell your data because it's so valuable people will pay money for it...
But you don't want people to copy it, so you fill it full of garbage.
It's a bit like Walmart adding a little bit of sewage to their consumer goods so people are less likely to shoplift. Don't worry, the baby formula only has 3 grams of human fecal matter in it!
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#10Isn't this similar to the concept of Paper Towns?
I read a nice book over summer - The Cartographers - which was based around that concept