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== Real Life ==
* Cartographers have always had to worry about others plagiarizing and reselling their maps - the problem being that it's very difficult to legally prove if someone copies their work, and (thankfully) it's also not possible to copyright reality or facts (which is what maps are ultimately based on). [https://web.archive.org/web/20081013203855/http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/4513-Times-Change-No-More-Fake-Streets-in-Rand-McNally-Maps.html There used to be] a clever solution - the mapmakers would deliberately add a fake street in a nondescript area of the map. A fake street ''can'' be copyrighted, and if another map had the same fake street, it would give the original mapmaker solid proof of copyright infringement.
** It's still in use - Google Maps occasionally includes a one-way street that you can't drive onto, such as [https://www.google.ca/maps/place/45%C2%B026'36.0%22N+75%C2%B038'14.7%22W/@45.4418391,-75.6380798,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d45.443333!4d-75.637415 this one].
* Zig-zagged: circa the 1960s, the telephone number of WCBS in New York City (excluding area code) was 765-4321.
** A few places request this number deliberately to make it easy to remember.
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