<div dir="auto">Isn't there a buoy there? And it is even called null island... so technically it is a physical place with a proper demarcation that can be verified by a visiting seagull...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 9:46 PM stevea <<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Null Island exists as a concept, much like the North Pole does. Even if "there is no there there" it is a real enough concept (not a joke) to not call imaginary. It is a place that represents something (I'd call it real, as real as a concept), even if nothing is physically there. We have such things in OSM elsewhere, for example political boundaries lean in that direction, yet we still map them.<br>
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And if a way can be said to be one dimensional (and a closed way / polygon two), a node is effectively zero dimensional. It's the merest whisper of "something is exactly right here" even if there is physically nothing there.<br>
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