If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. But if you steal from many, it's research.
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It's easy to detect plagiarism in work that is abstract and born out of creativity.
But how does one do it for something that is real, for instance, "A Map".
Map of a place "A" made by Cartographer X will more or less look the same as the one made by Cartographer Y.
So how can we prove that X has copied from Y?
That brings us to today's topic, "The Paper Towns"
First let us hear from the famous novelist, John Green.
So that was Agloe (New York), the town on which the book and the movie Paper Towns is based.
Now, Let's look at another curious case from Google Maps.
In the year 2008, the village of Argleton in West Lancashire, England, was generating a lot of interest.
Internet searches for that village included many lots of weather reports, as well as job and real estate listings; however, in reality, "Argleton" was nothing but an empty field.
Google issued in writing a press release that it's mapping database occasionally has an error, and by 2010 the town had disappeared from its maps.
People have speculated that Argleton was, in fact, a paper town — an anagram of "not large" or "not real" with the "G" standing for Google, but the web giant has never admitted to it.
Cartography is a difficult job, so introducing Paper Towns and Paper streets was a good way to stop others from stealing your work. But that leaves us with a question, Can we we actually trust our maps completely?
If you know of any more paper towns in your country, let us know in the comments.