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

[stevea]

On Jan 3, 2022, at 4:46 AM, Michael Kugelmann <MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 03.01.2022 um 12:25 schrieb Marc_marc:
>> if it's fictionnal, no, osm isn't a database about fictional stuff.
> +1
> 
> OSM is and was always well known for it's "ground truth" rule. We should
> not change that w/o any reason.

Let’s not be too literal with “ground truth.”  While it’s an excellent guideline, it truly can’t be a consistently-applied hard and fast rule:  you are not advocating removing all the political boundaries that are now in OSM simply because we cannot see them in a ground truth sense, are you?