Geographers’ A-Z London edition has about 100 trap streets. Apparently they are inserted to protect copyright. If a map is plagiarised the author can identify it as a copy of his own work.
The map itself cannot have a copyright as it is a representation of fact, the trap streets and deliberate mistakes change the work from being purely factual into a creative expression and thus able to be protected by copyright.
A ‘ski slope’ once depicted in east London, although there is no evidence of there ever having been a ski slope located in Haggerston Park.
Cartographers are naturally reluctant to disclose other ’deliberate’ errors. Some are known: Gnat’s Hill for Gants Hill; Bartlett Place (incidentally the name of Kieran Bartlett, an employee at Geographers’) for Broadway Walk E14; Moat Lane off Clandon Gardens N3 which doesn’t exist; Wagon Road EN4 which changes its name to Waggon Road after crossing a railway line, but left on the map with the single g spelling.
That’s a fun fact, David! Thanks for sharing!
Geographers’ A-Z London edition has about 100 trap streets. Apparently they are inserted to protect copyright. If a map is plagiarised the author can identify it as a copy of his own work.
The map itself cannot have a copyright as it is a representation of fact, the trap streets and deliberate mistakes change the work from being purely factual into a creative expression and thus able to be protected by copyright.
A ‘ski slope’ once depicted in east London, although there is no evidence of there ever having been a ski slope located in Haggerston Park.
Cartographers are naturally reluctant to disclose other ’deliberate’ errors. Some are known: Gnat’s Hill for Gants Hill; Bartlett Place (incidentally the name of Kieran Bartlett, an employee at Geographers’) for Broadway Walk E14; Moat Lane off Clandon Gardens N3 which doesn’t exist; Wagon Road EN4 which changes its name to Waggon Road after crossing a railway line, but left on the map with the single g spelling.