A Cartographer Discovered a Road on Official Maps That Does Not Exist — But Has Been There Since 1947
Philip Osei, a cartographer working for a national mapping agency in the UK, was conducting a routine digitization of legacy survey maps in 2018 when he found a road that shouldn't be there.
It appeared on every official Ordnance Survey map of a particular area of Wiltshire dating back to 1947. A single-track rural road, approximately 2.3 kilometers long, connecting two genuine roads via a route through private farmland.
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