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Google maps also includes towns in rural areas that don't exist. There are 4 listed within 20 miles of my house that haven't existed for well over 100 years. T
by Loughla 2y ago
Google maps also includes towns in rural areas that don't exist.
There are 4 listed within 20 miles of my house that haven't existed for well over 100 years. They're not incorporated anymore, and they don't exist on any other maps, just Google.
It's weird.
- echoangle 2y agoCould be copyright traps to detect unauthorized copying of the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement
- davidkwast 2y agoGood one. These are the real easter eggs
- misswaterfairy 2y agoMap Men have a fun take on it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI (Their whole series is brilliant too!)
- Dylan16807 2y agoFour of them in basically the same spot?
- aembleton 2y agoIf they're all copied, then they've got a pretty good case that they'd been copied, and it couldn't have been an accident.
- Dylan16807 2y agoIf you can copy one fake data point by accident, you can copy four. On the other hand, having such an exact match is clearly not a coincidence even if there's only one. So either way I don't see the value in having four.
- Loughla 2y agoSo the towns that show up did exist at one point in the 1800's and early 1900's for a couple. They were towns in the past, but aren't anymore. So I'm not sure they're paper towns. As I understand it, those never existed at all.
- bombcar 2y agoVarious maps ingest almost random data - around where I am the street maps (plots) are about 50 feet diagonally off. It’s entirely visible if you overlay satellite with the map, but it’ll probably never be fixed.