![]() ![]() ![]() As consumers, we can let these kinds of data lies slide.īut what if that information was intentionally wrong? What if the company that published that map or app had intentionally included a road or a walkway or some other feature that did actually exist? They're called trap streets and they do exist (or don't exist, as it were)! In fact, it is such an issue that even the (in)famous Cecil Adam's Chicago Reader column, The Straight Dope, has covered it. With the sheer amount and pace of development occurring in the inner-city precincts of many cities, such a situation is understandable. Perhaps the item displayed on the map no longer exists because of changes in the built environment? Maybe some cartographic prankster added them in there for kicks? Either way, the likelihood is that the accuracy of the data over time would not be verified since initial inclusion on the map. For a long time I put these kinds of anomalies down to bad data. ![]()
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