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

[Yuri Astrakhan]

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...

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 9:46 PM stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> 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.
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