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).
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.