ENHANCE
Yes, it definitely looks like the tiny portraitists added an extraneous “e” to the sixth US president’s last name. At least they didn’t call him Warren G. Hardon. [Notcot]
ENHANCE
Yes, it definitely looks like the tiny portraitists added an extraneous “e” to the sixth US president’s last name. At least they didn’t call him Warren G. Hardon. [Notcot]
mutley
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 12:22 PMThis sort of thing is used pretty often in official docs as a security measure to defeat counterfeiting
Kevin Russell
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 12:46 PMYou talking about deliberate typos or microscopic printing?
JamesCameronGray
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 1:59 PMDeliberate typos. Apparently the words to Waltzing Matilda in Australian passports are incorrect as well. Cartographers will add incorrect details to street maps so they can find out if someone has been copying their work.
Dan Halford
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 2:05 AMCartographers certainly add deliberate mistakes to maps to catch people copying them. Google do it too. Here’s one: http://j.mp/cerxCL
The Ledsam St shown doesn’t exist. Never has done. Never will do. It’s just there to catch people who might copy the map data and claim it as their own.
Other cartographers will use certain stylistic markers to indicate their own work. A few years back in the UK, the AA ended up paying the Ordnance Survey twenty million in compensation after it was found that the AA had systematically copied their maps.
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