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I am pleased to provide the following in response to your request Information on these trap streets would be fine.

What your policy is on trap streets, who determines where they are placed, I'm curious as to how many there are, where they are placed (roughly), Introduced into maps to catch and trace those who use unlicensed maps. Interested in trap streets put into maps. pg 1262 4.0 4.1 Kraak, Menno Jan (2001): Settings and needs for web cartography, in: Kraak and Allan Brown (eds), Web Cartography, Francis and Taylor, New York, p. Andreas Neumann in Encyclopedia of GIS, Springer, 2007. Thank you for your email dated 23 September 2009 requesting: I'm See Trap street for examples of how map vendors trap copyright violators, by introducing deliberate errors into their maps.
