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ha ha ha ! sacrés cartographes qui vont jusqu’à fausser leurs propres cartes pour piéger les plagieurs. Mais heureusement, on fait plus du tout ça aujourd’hui, c’était seulement avant.
Mapmakers included fake towns to catch forgers
Ever been to the town of Agloe in New York State? Whitewall in California? Or Relescent in Florida?
While these towns are clearly marked on a number of antique maps of the United States, they don’t actually exist.
“Paper towns” were fake places added to maps by early mapmakers in order to dupe forgers into copying them, thereby exposing themselves to charges of copyright infringement.
in « Seven things you need to know about maps », Feb 03, 2014 4:00PM, MAPS can be beautiful and good ones can be great investments.