On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 03:38:27PM -0600, William Robb scripsit: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graydon" >> -- Graydon, who is kinda relieved there isn't a cartographer out there >> able to make stuff like that up. > > An old friend of mine was a cartographer in Australia before coming to > Canada. Apparently, he stuck a place called Dick's Bolt (his name is > Richard Bolt) or some such onto a crossroads out in the middle of nowhere > for shits and giggles. > I think someone higher up caught it before the maps got printed though.
As I understand it, map companies deliberately put things that don't exist in the map. That makes it much simpler to sue when someone copies their maps, repackages them, and starts to sell them for cheaper. I can see how they might not want to use Dick's Bolt for that purpose, though. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
