Lacey Mountains?

[Boyd]

Never saw this before…. http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.80474884313369&lng=-74.26892224352838&z=15&type=roadmap&gpx=

 

[Teegate]

Looks like another copyright matter.

 

[manumuskin]

Looks like another copyright matter.

Are you saying they may have intentionally mislabeled Forked River MTS to catch someone illegally copying their maps?

 

[Teegate]

Yes. We have discussed this before. Someone felt Lake Broyhill was a trap also.

 

[Boyd]

I know this is an old cartographer's tradition, but seems like it would be irrelevant today. Google can see exactly who is using their maps and when they were accessed. There are all kinds of digital fingerprints. I wondered if perhaps one of the public parcels in that area was a park that has been given that name? Or perhaps it's just more of Google's questionable user contributed content?

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6304221?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6320846?hl=en&ref_topic=3257381

 

[46er]

Not even a big ant hill at that spot.

 

[bobpbx]

I wondered if perhaps one of the public parcels in that area was a park that has been given that name?

It very well could be similar to that. The Nature Conservancy property is right there, and I'm pretty sure they named it Forked River Mountain Preserve.

 

[46er]

May be property owned by an LLC at some point.

Company Information
Company Name: LACEY PARK, L.L.C.
File Number: 0600031461
Filing State: New Jersey (NJ)
Filing Status: Unknown
Filing Date: October 1, 1996
Company Age: 20 Years, 6 Months
Principal Address:

Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734

 

[manumuskin]

I know this is an old cartographer's tradition, but seems like it would be irrelevant today. Google can see exactly who is using their maps and when they were accessed. There are all kinds of digital fingerprints. I wondered if perhaps one of the public parcels in that area was a park that has been given that name? Or perhaps it's just more of Google's questionable user contributed content?

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6304221?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en
https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6320846?hl=en&ref_topic=3257381

Boyd,
Could you actually place errors on a map to help detect copyright infringement? I couldn't.I"d lose sleep at night knowing my map had an error on it

 

[Boyd]

I don't know Al. I approach cartography as more of an art than science.

 

[pinelandpaddler]

I don't know Al. I approach cartography as more of an art than science.

Why is that? Just curious.

 

[Boyd]

With a 40 year career as an artist/designer, that's how I approach just about everything.

 

[pinelandpaddler]

With a 40 year career as an artist/designer, that's how I approach just about everything.

Gotcha. Dig it.

Have you read The Mapping of New Jersey: The Men and the Art, by Snyder?

 

[Boyd]

Have looked through it in the bookstore, it's a nice looking book.