It is obvious that a fictitious town that does not exist was real, unchanged, and then faded again

ByCosmovisión

In this world, although it is described on the map, it really does not exist "Paper townThere is a fictional town called. Many of them are created by map publishers to prevent copyright infringement by other companies, but in the United States it has been discovered that such a paper town really existed indefinitely, and then it will appear again I found out that I had erased.

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The town is "Agloe"It was supposed to be near the small town" Roscoe "located in the north of the United States · New York.


Agloe is an American map publishing company "General Drafting"It was listed only on the map of the (GD) company. When creating a map, it takes a lot of labor and cost, but a company that illegally diverts a map already made by another company and sells it as its own product continues. For that reason, it was often used to write a fictitious place name in advance so that discrimination could be done immediately even if illegal copying was done.

The following map was created in the 1930s, but you can see that "Agloe" was written as a place name there. By the way, the name of the town is the official of the companyOTtoG.LMr. Indberg, the secretaryERnestAIt was made based on Mr. lpers' initials.


A few years after Agloe was born fictitiously, a major map publisherLand McNallyOn the map published by the company, it is discovered that there is a town "Agloe" which can not exist anyway. Mr. Lindberg of GD who knew this, appealed to Land McNally's injustice just as recently as trial.

It got caught by the trainer of GD company and it seemed that there was no room for excuses at Land McNally, but Land McNally Inc. denied it entirely. The lawyer showed a stance to face confrontation as "This map was the one that the company's staff actually visited the site and investigated." Among the objections, Land McNally's company has a building in a place called Agloe, and the name of the store in that building is "Agloe General Store(Agro souvenir shop) "and insisted on validity. So when I actually surveyed, I found that there really was a building with that name.

ByMicaela Go

It is a mysterious story that the place name "Agloe" that was supposed to be imagined by Mr. Lindberg et al. Is somehow the name of the shop that actually exists. "To reply, Land McNally's It is a mystery that the suspicion that the doubt that it will make up later "is made afterwards, but in reality there is another reason existed.

When the shop owner of this grocery store decided to open a store and build a store, he was forced to think about the name given to the shop. The shopkeeper who thought "You should name this land" is a gas stationEssoExpand the map you got and look up the name of the place. I checked the map frequently and found that there was "Agloe"The shopkeeper said that he named his store" Agloe General Store "as it was.

And the map that the owner got at Esso was created by Esso bought a map from GD. In other words, while the map was moving from hand to hand, Agloe changed its appearance as a place name that really existed, or it came to be used as the name of a store to be built in that place. As the circumstances became evident, the suspicion of Land McNally was later cleared up.

BySsalonso

After that, the agro sundry shop folded the store, the building was also demolished, the decades of years passed since no one lived. However, in February 2014 Mr. Frank JacobsIntroduction on blogWhen it was done, when searching for "Agloe" on Google Maps, the original place was displayed properly and I knew that Agloe continued to exist on the map. In the blog, Mr. Jacobs said in a blog that "When I search Agloe, the place where Lindbeg and his team wrote have left a pin at that place where the store no longer exists, and in 1992 It was absorbed by another major map publisher, American Map, and the original map is still used as it is. "


About 80 years since the birth, the place name which actually does not exist became real existence unexpectedly, it was thought that fancy became reality, but that story may have ended at the end. In March 2014, a journalistRobert KrulwichWhen I looked up the same name on Google Maps, I finally found out that the name of Agloe is no longer displayed on the map.


It seems that Google deleted Agloe's place name from the database in the middle of March. The town where origin should have never existed becomes real thing in the moment, it gradually goes out. However, Agloe, which survived only on the map, was finally finally disappearing from the map on the map, it was an episode that seemed to feel somewhat lonely.


The place where Agloe should have existed is the following point in Google Maps.