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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

I don't understand the fuzz about searching for null island and not finding
it. There isn't anything anyway (or maybe this buoy, but people are
typically not interested in searching or finding buoys in the sea on maps).
Plus for null island it is quite easy to remeber the coords anyway.
If we agreed that null island should return, wouldn't it be quite probable
that some people would ask for more, e.g. confluence points? What's the
point of explicitly marking "things" defined only through their
coordinates? Mabe it is about collecting information about them, e.g.
wikipedia/wikidata links? There is nothing that an observer could
contribute to such mathematical points which basically turn the principle
of OSM to its head (instead of observing something, recording it's
coordinates and describe it and publishing the result, the procedure is
inverse: starting from the coordinates you depart to see that there is
nothing specific).

Cheers,
Martin
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