<html><head></head><body>The concepts might be, but the exact locations we use have been fixed politically. The earth wobbles, but we don't move the definition of the poles and equator continuously.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 January 2022 14:03:33 CET, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">The North and South Pole, and the equator are not just artefacts of the <br>coordinate system we are using, they are physical properties of the <br>planet we happen to live on.<br><br>And yes time zones are quite questionable, but they are at least founded <br>in reoccurring in physical events.<br><br>Am 03.01.2022 um 04:10 schrieb stevea:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Do we remove the North Pole, Equator, time zones...too? If not, why not?<hr> talk mailing list<br> talk@openstreetmap.org<br> <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br></blockquote></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>