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Agloe, New York, was invented on a 1930s map as a copyright trap. In 1950, a general store was built there and named Agloe General Store, as that was the name seen on the map. Thus, the phantom settlement became a real one. [3] There are also misnamed settlements, such as the villages of Mawdesky and Dummy 1325 in Lancashire on Google Maps. [4]
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
The hamlet of Cairo is located in east-central Greene County at (42.302637, -74.003818), [4] near the geographic center of the town of New York State Route 23 curves through the northern part of the community, leading southeast 9 miles (14 km) to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge over the Hudson River at the village of Catskill, and west 16 miles (26 km) to Windham in the Catskill Mountains.
In cartography, 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 plagiarists of the map who, if caught, would be unable to explain the inclusion of the "trap street" on their map as innocent. On maps that are not of ...
Cairo / ˈ k ɛər oʊ / is a town in Greene County, New York, United States.The population was 6,644 at the 2020 census. It is the third largest town in the county. [3] [4] The town is in the southern part of the county, partly in the Catskill Park.
Cairo-based film marketing and distribution outfit MAD Solutions has taken an equity ownership stake in New York’s revived arthouse distributor D Street Releasing. The partnership will extend ...
“For people on this app to be trying to bully a teenager into hating what their parents bought for them is wild," Izzy said
The Market NYC was founded in 2002, when a small group of designers and artists, including the Alex Pabon and Nicolas Petrou, were looking for a location in New York City to sell their goods, rather than do so on a consignment basis in boutiques, or on open day at Henri Bendel – where lines of designers waited outside for hours to have a chance to sell. [2]