True or Fake?

Maps may have fictional places that act as traps to track copyright infringement. Sometimes though, such places become real-world objects...

First car navigation systems (and actually that was not an assistant with a paper map) worked without GPS. And maps were recorded on magnetic tape.

Moving on with the navigation. For Muslims’ prayer direction to Mecca is crucial. And despite the sacred city lies to the south of the conterminous US, many Muslims in that country for some reason are facing north east during their prayer.

It’s hard to believe but there are islands nowadays on the world’s map (primarily, in the Pacific ocean) whose existence is not absolutely proven. Several islands are doubted.

Google once presented a smell-search for April Fool’s day. And other developers decided to make a map of smells. Well,with no global coverage, but still very interactive...

It is hard to believe, but Gorbachev’s birthmark once became a ‘popular tourist destination’. The point is that there is a ‘shapecation’ - visiting places due to their specific outlines, and USSR president’s birthmark increased one exotic island’s popularity...

Let’s get back to China. A GPS shift of up to 1 km exists there to confuse enemy spies.

Indoor navigation is trending. It has been discovered recently that a test project has been launched. During this project anyone can fill a form to get a Google Glass for indoor mapping inside shops and civic buildings in Ukraine's major cities.

There is a mobile app that allows its users to avoid people whom they don't want to meet - to build a sort of ‘antisocial’ network.

In Geldrop, The Netherlands, there is an Aragorn street, which unfortunately doesn’t cross the Arwen street.