Map makers very often throw in things like a fake subdivision street. They're called Map Traps.

They do this in case someone copies their map they can show it was a copy of their work and not someone else's original creation.

Dictionaries have been known to do similar things: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/29/050…

So the question becomes, was Argleton put in my the Dutch mapmakers or copied by them

Map makers very often throw in things like a fake subdivision street. They're called Map Traps.

They do this in case someone copies their map they can show it was a copy of their work and not someone else's original creation.

Dictionaries have been known to do similar things: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/29/050…

So the question becomes, was Argleton put in my the Dutch mapmakers or copied by them

Map makers very often throw in things like a fake subdivision street. They're called Map Traps.

They do this in case someone copies their map they can show it was a copy of their work and not someone else's original creation.

Dictionaries have been known to do similar things: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/08/29/050…

So the question becomes, was Argleton put in my the Dutch mapmakers or copied by them