Mystery of a town wiped off the map by Google: How the fake Agloe, New York, conceived as a "copyright trap" by cartographers turned into a real hamlet before vanishing forever

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Snejana Farberov


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As recently as last Sunday, day-trippers looking to take a scenic drive through upstate New York were able to pull up directions on Google Maps to a tiny hamlet called Agloe nestled in the Catskills.
The distant, virtually unknown locale has since been wiped off the...
Mystery of a town wiped off the map by Google: How the fake Agloe, New York, conceived as a "copyright trap" by cartographers turned into a real hamlet before vanishing forever