It is real, but many gps systems and paper maps have not caught up yet. Personally, I live in a street that on many maps do not exist. It is curiously difficult to find information and examples of cartographic easter eggs and trap streets, any pointers you might have will be greatly appreciated. I will get back to this in another post, it is too funny to let lie.
There are other examples of fictional entries in other works such as lists of names, magazines, dictionaries, medical books, a fictional mammalian order, a fictional star system and others. It might unnerve some people, but there is a long history for these sort of things in all sorts of contexts. This would make for urban exploration, a kind of cartographic treasure-hunts.
As mobile apps start showing you layouts of shopping centres (where to find a tin of tuna?), trap rooms or trap doors (haha) could be introduced. There is some potential for entertainment in trap streets. He went to the scene and found it to be a backstreet of a backstreet.Īs for the easter eggs in a British army map from the 20ties, a sweaty cartographer added an elephant outside the Gold Coast: map elephant Owen Massey McKnight, clearly a map enthusiast, found a trap street in Oxford called Goy Close. 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. One of the most 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.
What is a trap street A cartographer’s trademark to catch copycats. We show you secrets that arent on any map. We blur the lines between fiction and reality. Copyright infringements will be unmasked by these fictional, deliberate trap streets, and this has been going on for hundreds of years. Trap Street is multi-media performing arts collective. 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 drawing table, the meticulous of drawing contours seems rather nerdy. If such were the law, information could never be reproduced or widely disseminated." (Id.Cartographers are/were often seen as pretty dour characters. There, the court stated: "o treat 'false' facts interspersed among actual facts and represented as actual facts as fiction would mean that no one could ever reproduce or copy actual facts without risk of reproducing a false fact and thereby violating a copyright . Hagstrom Map Co., a United States federal court found that copyright traps are not themselves protectable by copyright. Trap streets are not copyrightable under the federal law of the United States.
It has been suggested that Google Earth placed Sandy Island, New Caledonia as the geographical analog to a trap street, although historical evidence implies that it originated as a cartographical error and Google simply passed the error along. One such street, "Bartlett Place", a genuine but misnamed walkway (named after Kieran Bartlett, an employee at Geographers’ A-Z Map Company), was identified in the programme and will appear in future editions under its real name, Broadway Walk. In an edition of the BBC Two program Map Man, first broadcast 17 October 2005, a spokesperson for the Geographers' A-Z Map Company claimed there are "about 100" trap streets included in the London A-Z Street atlas.
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