Why do people keep stealing my work :(

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

Fred Cisin said:
> > 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.
> 

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.

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Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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