One guy managed to get the government and a group of official mapping apps to list a road named after him. And he got away with it for over four years.
In 2013, Ge Yulu, an artist in Beijing, found a street that didn’t carry a street sign. So he put up an official-looking sign with his own name on it.
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Ge Yu Road’s street signs, which Ge put up in 2013.
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The road, on Baidu Maps’ street view.
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The road, located near the city’s Chaoyang district, is about 460m (1,509 ft) long, and about a 10-minute walk end-to-end. Read more…
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