According to Peter Watts’ post in The Great Wen he has managed to clarify this reasoning. If a map is plagiarised the author can identify it as a copy of his own work. In fact deliberate errors called trap streets are included, and according to the BBC programme Map Man, broadcast in October 2005, its presenter Nicholas Crane, was told by John Frankel the managing director of Geographers’ who produce The Knowledge bible – the A-Z – that London alone has about 100 trap streets.Īpparently they are inserted to protect copyright. He hapless Knowledge boy had relied on his A-Z map and had learned the hard way that maps should not be slavishly followed. The salutary lesson to be learned is that if he had just gone to that location he would have discovered there was a 60ft drop onto the road below. It relates an appearance (test) when a Knowledge boy tells the examiner that you could turn right into Farringdon Street from Holborn Viaduct. There is an apocryphal story which every generation of Knowledge students hears.
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