Mapping Hacks

This OpenStreetmap article on easter egg streets and geographic data; things that don’t exist inserted into maps, in order to pursue anyone who might copy features from those maps, for intellectual property rights infringement. A fake street, “Lye Close”, identified by heath bunting, is illustrated with pictures.

Fake street features are fairly hard to find,
and we really have no idea how many there are. Fake streets, purpose mis-spellings and phantom churches are all thought to exist. It\u2019s why OpenStreetMap asks you not to refence maps when entering data, and it\u2019s one reason why we need our own free and accurate geodata.

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