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7 things you didn’t know about maps - CNN.com

▻http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/02/travel/maps-daniel-crouch/index.html

PaS très intéressant pour nous, c’est juste un article pour les collectionneurs (NdT : les spéculateurs) de cartes, mais le point 4 est marrant, déjà longuement développé par Mark Monmonnier dans un de ses livres (Comment mentir avec les cartes).

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4. 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.

#cartographie #collectionneurs

#TED : John Green on Paper Towns and Why Learning is Awesome

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDGlcxYrhQ

the manner in which we map the world changes the world.

▻https://www.ted.com/talks/john_green_the_nerd_s_guide_to_learning_everything_online?language=en

Agloe, New York, is very famous to cartographers, because it’s a paper town. It’s also known as a copyright trap. Mapmakers — because my map of New York and your map of New York are going to look very similar, on account of the shape of New York — often, mapmakers will insert fake places onto their maps, in order to protect their copyright. Because then, if my fake place shows up on your map, I can be well and truly sure that you have robbed me.

Agloe is a scrabblization of the initials of the two guys who made this map, Ernest Alpers and Otto [G.] Lindberg, and they released this map in 1937. Decades later, Rand McNally releases a map with Agloe, New York, on it, at the same exact intersection of two dirt roads in the middle of nowhere.

Well, you can imagine the delight over at General Drafting. They immediately call Rand McNally, and they say, “We’ve caught you! We made Agloe, New York, up. It is a fake place. It’s a paper town. We’re going to sue your pants off!” And Rand McNally says, “No, no, no, no, Agloe is real.” Because people kept going to that intersection of two dirt roads in the middle of nowhere, expecting there to be a place called Agloe — someone built a place called Agloe, New York.

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I believe that what we map changes the life we lead. I believe that while maps don’t show you where you will go in your life, they show you where you might go. You very rarely go to a place that isn’t on your personal map.

La carte et le territoire d’Internet...

(Le discours parle de bien plus que juste la cartographie. Ca parle de « communities of learners » sur Internet)

Transcript :

▻https://www.ted.com/talks/john_green_the_nerd_s_guide_to_learning_everything_online/transcript?language=en

#cartographie

poke @reka

Agloe, la ville qui n’existait pas, mais en fait si, et puis finalement non

▻http://www.slate.fr/life/84889/carte-agloe-ville-existe-pas

A l’époque, le directeur de cette entreprise de tracé de cartes et son assistant cherchaient un moyen de ne pas être « plagiés ». Strange Maps explique pourquoi :

« Comment prouver que quelqu’un a volé votre carte, si cette carte reflète scrupuleusement la réalité ? »

Lindberg et Alpers avaient trouvé LA solution : ajouter une fausse ville, ou une fausse rue. Si vous la retrouvez chez un concurrent, il devient alors facile de prouver le plagiat, puisque cet élément a tout simplement été inventé. C’est ainsi que débute l’histoire d’Agloe

Seven things you need to know about maps | Optus Zoo News

▻http://news.optuszoo.com.au/2014/02/03/seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-maps

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.

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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.

#cartographie #cartes_anciennes