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I find it hard to believe that anyone has ever become lost looking for (or travelling on) a trap street, especially given this quote from the Straight Dope page: "Of course, the make-believe streets are little ones. The mythical avenues normally run no longer than a block, dead end, and are shown with broken lines (as though they are under construction)." So what's the deal with the "Travellers' Woes" section? Do we have evidence for this at all? Glenn Willen (Talk) [[]] 22:14, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
One note--map services of Google, Yahoo, Mapquest, and Microsoft all include a street named (rather obviously) "Help Me" in Summerhaven, Arizona. I assume this is a trap street. Apart from the improbable name, it is a straight north-south street in an area of curving roads and is involved in several unlikely intersections. It also doesn't appear on aerial images, but seeing roads in forest isn't easy. This might be worth mentioning in the article as an easily-observed online example of the phenomenon. Paalexan 02:17, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Google's maps have streets where there are no satellite photos in many places, due to the satellite photos being out of date and new streets having been built since they were taken —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.86.83 (talk) 01:50, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
One that I can imagine is a road whose classification is wrong: that outside the area of interest (a jurisdiction contiguous to the featured one but shown only in bordering areas) is unpaved in an area in which most roads are likely to be paved. Another possibility is that communities are misplaced and highway alignments are obsolete or otherwise misplaced.
Alignments of "proposed" highways pose another possible trap. These alignments are often highly speculative, and they are of little usefulness on a map. Alignment of a highway under construction might be useful knowledge a couple years later and is easily verified, but a "proposed" alignment can be changed or abandoned in response to political opposition or budgetary constraints and disappear altogether. Mapmakers can establish a proposed alignment anywhere they please for any purpose. One such purpose could be a copyright trap, so if someone copies the exact alignment of one mapmaker's fanciful "proposed highway" on his own map, then one has overwhelming evidence of a copyright violation. An example is of a "proposed turnpike" parallel to the Kansas/Missouri state line on maps by Goushã Corporation -- a highway never built -- whose inclusion on another map could constitute a copyright violation if it ever appeared on someone else's map.--Pbrower2a (talk) 18:51, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Street traps appear not to be copyrightable, at least under the federal law of the United States. This is idiotic. By this rationale, it ought not to be possible to copyright anything. The quoted objection entirely misses the point that people reproducing someone else's maps as if they were their own is the copyright violation itself, and the trap street merely the index of that violation - in other words, by including the original author's deliberate mistake, the violator shows he is merely copying someone else's work and not producing from his own survey. It's not copying the trap street that is the crime. Nuttyskin (talk) 16:09, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
There's an entry for "in fiction" for Fictitious entry, but not one for Trap Street. Given a mention of trap streets in a work of fiction (China Mieville's Kraken), should I create a section here for "in fiction" or put it in the fictitious entry article (a more general category that already has two examples)? Hactarcomp (talk) 19:06, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Looks like this page needs some more info. Here is a radio show that does a feature on trap streets. Hope it helps! http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2012/01/spark-169-january-22-25-2012/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.176.23 (talk) 18:33, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
That makes me wonder whether this article's title is "original research" and should be changed. 86.159.192.146 (talk) 02:51, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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I've long been aware of a real Trap Street in Cheshire, England - the Red Lion at Lower Withington stands on the corner. Others exist too. Geopersona (talk) 08:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)