What Is a Phantom Settlement?

A phantom settlement is a somewhat obscure cartography term that basically means an error on a map. In the early 19 hundreds, there were these two small time map makers who decided to make one of these intentional errors on their maps. They made up a tiny town in rural upstate new york and they named it using a combination of their initials,. And then about a year later, their competitor, ran mc nally, released a map of the same geographical area. To these two map makers surprise, they spotted their tiny town on ranMcNally's map. So they sued, claiming copyright infringement. The only way that their town could have appeared on ran McNally’s