Jay Foreman

And as a result, Aglow, which originally started out as a paper town, just a copyright trap, it became a real place.

And therefore, the case was thrown out of court and couldn't be used.

So, yeah, there were major players and there was massive rivalry between them.

And that's just in the US.

So where is Aglow?

So Aglow, well, it's actually an absolute nothing.

There's nothing there, but it's supposed to be in New York State in the Catskill Mountains, very close to the border between Delaware County and

one of the other counties that borders Delaware County.

That's only slightly true.

It's very easy to think that, of course, a map should be accurate, because these days it's made with satellites, and it's made to be as accurate as possible.

Otherwise, it doesn't do its job.

But there's a couple of things to watch out for.

And one of them is something I mentioned earlier, copyright traps, where map designers will deliberately, and almost all maps can do this, they will deliberately have a wrong detail, which causes no trouble to the map user, but big trouble to someone who tries to copy it to make their own map.

And examples of this include making a squiggly road slightly more squiggly, or spelling the name of a town wrong, or just like in the case of Aglo, making up a town that isn't there.

So that's one thing to look out for for accuracy.

And the other one is good old-fashioned human error.

which is all over maps.

And if you know where to look, you'll find them, especially on TV news networks.

There are lots of great stories of maps on the news that show this is where Hong Kong is.

And they've got a great big map of Brazil where they've labeled Hong Kong where Rio de Janeiro should be.