It is one thing to lose your keys or your iPhone, even the love of your life, but to lose an entire town? Yet that is what just happened in upstate New York. Last week, Google did something it almost never does - it wiped a town off its maps. Don't blame Google. The town's provenance was suspect.
How Agloe, a speck of a hamlet in the western Catskills, wound up on maps 90 years ago remains a cartographic enigma. How it persevered is an existential riddle. In the 1930s, General Drafting Company founder Otto G. Lindberg and an assistant, Ernest Alpers, designed the town as a copyright trap.
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