Could be copyright traps to detect unauthorized copying of the map: https://en.w...

Loughla · 2025-04-25T11:08:20 1745579300

So the towns that show up did exist at one point in the 1800's and early 1900's for a couple. They were towns in the past, but aren't anymore. So I'm not sure they're paper towns. As I understand it, those never existed at all.

misswaterfairy · 2025-04-25T01:34:50 1745544890

Map Men have a fun take on it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI

(Their whole series is brilliant too!)

Dylan16807 · 2025-04-25T02:02:27 1745546547

Four of them in basically the same spot?

aembleton · 2025-04-25T09:09:25 1745572165

If they're all copied, then they've got a pretty good case that they'd been copied, and it couldn't have been an accident.

Dylan16807 · 2025-04-25T15:33:07 1745595187

If you can copy one fake data point by accident, you can copy four.

On the other hand, having such an exact match is clearly not a coincidence even if there's only one.

So either way I don't see the value in having four.

davidkwast · 2025-04-25T01:06:38 1745543198

Good one. These are the real easter eggs