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Copyright Easter Eggs (2018)

39 points by tomkwok 3y ago

Etheryte 3y ago
Known also as a trap street [0], a name which I believe is more widely used? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
- Uehreka 3y ago
  Are these real? I see this fact (and the trap words in dictionaries one) mentioned extremely often on the internet, and it’s just so cute and clever that it starts to trip my bullshit sense. Edit: meh, TFA seems to have a fair number of examples, I’m satisfied for now.
  - fineIllregister 3y ago
    One of my favorite examples: a fictional town that became real. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
- nicbou 3y ago
  Trap streets are a form of paper street https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street
vdaea 3y ago
Seems all the links to google maps easter eggs are 10-20 years old and fixed.
valleyer 3y ago
If, like me, you occasionally revel in a good old "people talking straight past each other" e-mail fight, read this one, linked from the wiki page, in which "80n" claims to know of trap streets in OSM. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-February/000736.html https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-Fe...
extraduder_ire 3y ago
The links to apple copying OSM are pretty interesting in their own right, and demonstrate why OSM's policy is to not include traps in their maps. It's already pretty obvious when they are copied from. TL;DR OSM maps are far more detailed, in places, than the average map so you'll end up copying features you aren't trying to map as something else.
tkgally 3y ago
It’s probably not an Easter egg, but for my neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, some maps—Mapion, Google, Apple—show a nonexistent street next to my house while others—Yahoo, OSM—don’t: https://gally.net/temp/20240214maps/index.html https://gally.net/temp/20240214maps/index.html The nonexistent street has been appearing on maps for at least a quarter century.

39 points by tomkwok 3y ago

Known also as a trap street [0], a name which I believe is more widely used? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

Uehreka 3y ago
Are these real? I see this fact (and the trap words in dictionaries one) mentioned extremely often on the internet, and it’s just so cute and clever that it starts to trip my bullshit sense. Edit: meh, TFA seems to have a fair number of examples, I’m satisfied for now.
- fineIllregister 3y ago
  One of my favorite examples: a fictional town that became real. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York
nicbou 3y ago
Trap streets are a form of paper street https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street

vdaea 3y ago

Seems all the links to google maps easter eggs are 10-20 years old and fixed.

valleyer 3y ago

If, like me, you occasionally revel in a good old "people talking straight past each other" e-mail fight, read this one, linked from the wiki page, in which "80n" claims to know of trap streets in OSM. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-February/000736.html https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-Fe...

extraduder_ire 3y ago

The links to apple copying OSM are pretty interesting in their own right, and demonstrate why OSM's policy is to not include traps in their maps. It's already pretty obvious when they are copied from. TL;DR OSM maps are far more detailed, in places, than the average map so you'll end up copying features you aren't trying to map as something else.

tkgally 3y ago

It’s probably not an Easter egg, but for my neighborhood in Yokohama, Japan, some maps—Mapion, Google, Apple—show a nonexistent street next to my house while others—Yahoo, OSM—don’t: https://gally.net/temp/20240214maps/index.html https://gally.net/temp/20240214maps/index.html The nonexistent street has been appearing on maps for at least a quarter century.