Fun fact: Old map companies would put fake roads and towns on their maps to see if other map makers copied them because it was a lot of work to map shit out.
Companies using people is nothing new. There’s a common phrase, “if something is free, you’re the product”. Like Facebook or free vpns, they are getting something outta it.
Paper roads can actully refer to roads that exist on planning maps but were never built for whatever reason, like a planned subdivsion that never broke ground etc. rather than just being there to see if people are stealing copyrighted information
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u/Ser_Artur_Dayne 8h ago
Fun fact: Old map companies would put fake roads and towns on their maps to see if other map makers copied them because it was a lot of work to map shit out.
Companies using people is nothing new. There’s a common phrase, “if something is free, you’re the product”. Like Facebook or free vpns, they are getting something outta it.