<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Kerry Irons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:irons54vortex@gmail.com" target="_blank">irons54vortex@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Century Schoolbook',serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Not sure about present practice but the State of Michigan certainly did this exact same thing in the past, and it was explained to me in the same context – the state would know if someone was copying their maps if these fictitious locations showed up on another map.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I heard about something like this with San Francisco paper maps many years ago. So, I've been know to torment my Google stalkers with these Easter Eggs. Sometimes as a volunteer I don't have time to finish an edit properly and create unwitting Easter Eggs. I get a new area or feature in the best I can as time permits the during first edit session. Next edit session, I cleanup the data. Case in point <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/33.78735/-112.13182">http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/33.78735/-112.13182</a>. I needed another weekend to get back to the area for another GPS track of a new ramp. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@33.787628,-112.1308614,18z">https://www.google.com/maps/@33.787628,-112.1308614,18z</a> the Google mapper didn't know what to do with the roundabout. However, they left Long Shadow connection to the existing ramp like I did in the first edit. In addition, I didn't have the name of the street during the first edit either. I must be a professional mapper just like in San Francisco. ;-)</div>
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