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Saturday, August 31, 2024

August 31, 2024

The term Paper Towns refers to a specific type of copyright trap used by cartographers. Maps get plagiarized a lot, you know, because no matter who's mapping it, the state of New York looks pretty much the same, so cartographers often put fake towns or fake streets on their maps. That way, they can identify ones that have been copied from theirs.

- Mental Floss (December 25, 2017)

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