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

[Colin Smale]

The concepts might be, but the exact locations we use have been fixed politically. The earth wobbles, but we don't move the definition of the poles and equator continuously.

On 3 January 2022 14:03:33 CET, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>The North and South Pole, and the equator are not just artefacts of the 
>coordinate system we are using, they are physical properties of the 
>planet we happen to live on.
>
>And yes time zones are quite questionable, but they are at least founded 
>in reoccurring in physical events.
>
>Am 03.01.2022 um 04:10 schrieb stevea:
>> Do we remove the North Pole, Equator, time zones...too?  If not, why not?
>>
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