30 Jun
2006
30 Jun
'06
6:09 a.m.
Stan Barr wrote:
Hi,
Fred Cisin said:
The British Ordnance survey and "A to Z" street maps certainly do this.
I found one of their deliberate errors in the latest edition of our
local area map.
I've always meant to go and see if "Donkey Town" actually exists. It's
on some
OS maps and not others (plus it doesn't look like a separate place, but part
of some other village anyway). I've always wondered if it was an anti-copying
measure... (odd enough name too; not many places in the UK actually end in
'town')
cheers
Jules
Allegedly, map printers (cartographers) have errors in their
street maps to help identify blatant copies. I guess they figure
the effort to verify all of the street names, etc. makes it
unlikely that a counterfeiter would catch the deliberate error...
not sure how this has changed with more modern technology.
Monmonier says that it
continues.