"Naming-and-maps" query

[Calthrop]

I gather that this general area -- eastern Leicestershire, and Rutland -- was long reckoned the "fox-hunting-est" part of Britain: its kind of terrain, natural and man-made, ideally suited to the activity.

 

[Gloster]

I gather that this general area -- eastern Leicestershire, and Rutland -- was long reckoned the "fox-hunting-est" part of Britain: its kind of terrain, natural and man-made, ideally suited to the activity.

Yes, very much ‘the shires’. As they pointed out in Yes, Minister, for years the M1 ended in Leicestershire so that Cabinet Ministers could go hunting.

 

[Bevan Price]

It has been known in the past for map makers to make deliberate minor omissions, small errors, etc., as a means to detect copyright theft by "pirate" publishers who were using "official" maps without permission or payment. I am not sure if that still happens.

 

[Gloster]

It has been known in the past for map makers to make deliberate minor omissions, small errors, etc., as a means to detect copyright theft by "pirate" publishers who were using "official" maps without permission or payment. I am not sure if that still happens.

I believe they are called fingerprints.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

It has been known in the past for map makers to make deliberate minor omissions, small errors, etc., as a means to detect copyright theft by "pirate" publishers who were using "official" maps without permission or payment. I am not sure if that still happens.

Any such deliberate mistakes in the Gaddesby Brook / John O'Gaunt area?

 

[Ediswan]

It has been known in the past for map makers to make deliberate minor omissions, small errors, etc., as a means to detect copyright theft by "pirate" publishers who were using "official" maps without permission or payment. I am not sure if that still happens.

Map makers make a few fake additions, such as non-existent side roads. Things a genuine survey would not find.

 

[A Challenge]

I remember a story of a fake name that appeared on a map at a crossroads in America - so someone decided to open a store there named after it, now out of business. A few years later, the existence of this thing made it onto other maps, only for the original map owner to try (unsuccessfully) to sue for copyright infringement, not sure if maliciously or because they didn't know.

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