It now exists, and you can look it up in Google maps.Īpparently, according to a spokesperson for the London A-Z, their maps include about 100 trap streets, and a fictional mountain peak went undetected in the US for two years. Digging into the matter, it turned out that in that once empty spot, a shop was built, now sporting the name Agloe General Store. Their map was – according to them – then copied by a competitor a few years later. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers of the General Drafting Company. “Agloe” being a mashup of the initials of Otto G. One of the more hilarious examples, are the creation of the town Agloe in New York state.
The term paper street and trap street are often confused, but they can be interpreted as different things: Paper towns/street can be planned constructions that are never created, trap streets are included to trap other cartographers. Copyright infringements will be unmasked by these fictional, deliberate trap streets, and this has been going on for hundreds of years.
Map makers sometimes put phantom streets, parks, ponds and such in their maps, so as to trap others that copy their work. But, as programmers put easter-eggs in code, cartographers do the same. Not so long ago, maps were hand-drawn, and hanging over a a drawing table, the meticulous of drawing contours seems rather nerdy. Cartographers are/were often seen as pretty dour characters.
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