[OSM-dev] South Pole at 0,0 ?

[Matthias Julius]

The Mapnik layer shows the South Pole at 0°, 0°.  Unless my geography
knowledge betrays me this is slightly off.

There is nothing in the data in this location (after I deleted a
couple of nodes there, but nothing that had anything to do with "South
Pole").  I am wondering how Mapnik is dreaming that up.

I have the suspicion that osm2pgsql (which is doing the conversation
to Mercator, right?) somehow falls back to 0,0 when it can not deal
with an indefinite northing value.

Matthias