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Could be copyright traps to detect unauthorized copying of the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_sett
by echoangle 1y ago
Could 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 1y agoGood one. These are the real easter eggs
- misswaterfairy 1y 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 1y agoFour of them in basically the same spot?
- aembleton 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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.