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

[Simon Poole]

For the purpose of this discussion I don't think we really have to 
consider Chandler wobble and other even smaller effects.

For those that are interested 
https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Science/EarthRotation/PolarMotionPlot.html?nn=12932 
(the difference is a handful of meters).

Am 03.01.2022 um 14:16 schrieb 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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