[OSM-talk] Was the deletion of Null Island reasonable?

[stevea]

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.

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.