Can you trust your GPS?

Read up on Trap Streets at Wikipedia, which says: “A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of “trapping” potential copyright violators of the map, who will be unable to justify the inclusion of the “trap street” on their map. On maps that are not of streets, other “copyright trap” features (such as non-existent towns or mountains with the wrong elevations) may be inserted or altered for the same purpose.“

More to read up here: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/trap-rooms.html

So the next time you’re wandering around following your GPS’ instructions and just don’t see what its telling you you’re supposed to see, you’ll know why!

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