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

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

The buoy is there and separately mapped under the buoy's actual name.  The
deleted null island node was a separate node created specifically to hold
the "Null Island" name.

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 9:53 PM Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrakhan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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