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Agloe, New York
- kilian 11y agoJohn Green, the author mentioned in this wikipedia article, has a TED talk that talks about Agloe: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_green_the_nerd_s_guide_to_learning_everything_online?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/john_green_the_nerd_s_guide_to_lea...
- danso 11y agoOne quick FYI: the OP links to the Agloe's entry in the U.S. Geographic Names Information System database. The database is available as a bulk download here: http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm It's a fairly large (2.2M rows) and handy data file that can be used to extract geo-coordinates and metadata for U.S. geographical features, i.e. cities, states, counties, parks, even cemeteries, in lieu of hitting up a geocoder.
- maxerickson 11y agoAlso note that it is messy (duplicates and rough locations) and contains many historical features that have not yet been marked as such.
- adrusi 11y agoI first learned about Agloe via this beautiful little record (CC BY-NC-SA). No affiliation but I figured I'd plug it here. http://jkirkpearson.com/album/the-curious-appearance-of-agloe-ny http://jkirkpearson.com/album/the-curious-appearance-of-aglo...
- anarcat 11y agodoesn't look like it's on OSM - should that be fixed? :) http://osm.org/go/Zc3OxgB0- http://osm.org/go/Zc3OxgB0-
- tootie 11y agoSleepy Hollow, NY didn't exist until after the Headless Horseman was written.
- bbanyc 11y agoThe modern Village of Sleepy Hollow only got its name in 1996 - before then it was called North Tarrytown. But it is certainly the place that Washington Irving was writing about and the Old Dutch Church still stands there.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoRecently I found this non-place on Google Maps: Lake Fail, Texas. https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3844594,-97.7345006,17z https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3844594,-97.7345006,17z
- GaiusCoffee 11y agoWhat do you mean? I went on Street View and there is clearly a body of water there.. https://www.google.com/maps/@30.384544,-97.7351451,3a,75y,104.97h,86.08t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdtnWQVOj3EbLEWTRho_Xgw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DdtnWQVOj3EbLEWTRho_Xgw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D33.038887%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@30.384544,-97.7351451,3a,75y,10...
- thrownaway2424 11y agoSure, but do you really think it's called "Lake Fail"? It just looks like a drainage pond.
- philbo 11y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1uudtc/the_origins_of_lake_fail/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/1uudtc/the_origins_...
- glibgil 11y agoHappy birthday, this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500217
- 001sky 11y ago"In Alexandria Drafting Co. v. Andrew H. Amsterdam dba Franklin Maps,[6] the court ruled that "fictitious names may not be copyrighted" and "the existence, or non-existence, of a road is a non-copyrightable fact".[7]" == side note to this story
- davidlakata 11y agoFor fans of Jorge Luis Borges, he has a short story that covers similar thematic ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu....
- briantakita 11y agoThe map is not the territory... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation#.22The_map_is_not_the_territory.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation...
- minikites 11y ago...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
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- personjerry 11y agoThis reminds me of the story of the Brazilian aardvark http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-a-raccoon-became-an-aardvark http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-a-raccoon-became-... It is a nice reminder that the things we think of as "official" were once made up by someone. Indeed, that is all language and culture is! We just happen to agree upon them.