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+65 6292 2177

Address:
42 Kandahar Street | Kampung Glam Shop Houses, Singapore 198896, Singapore

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 copyright violators 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 streets, other copyright trap features may be inserted or altered for the same purpose.Trap streets are often nonexistent streets; but sometimes, rather than actually depicting a street where none exists, a map will misrepresent the nature of a street in a fashion that can still be used to detect copyright violators but is less likely to interfere with navigation. For instance, a map might add nonexistent bends to a street, or depict a major street as a narrow lane, without changing its location or its connections to other streets. Trap streets are rarely acknowledged by publishers. One known case is a popular driver's atlas for the city of Athens, Greece, which has a warning inside its front cover that potential copyright violators should beware of trap streets.
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