'I think I discovered a military base in the middle of the ocean' -- Null Island, the most real of fictional places — mentioned by pella

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:57:38 GMT

2022: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08383 ( old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31080519 ) "I think I discovered a military base in the middle of the ocean' -- Null Island, the most real of fictional places" by: Levente Juhasz, Peter Mooney "This paper explores Null Island, a fictional place located at 0∘ latitude and 0∘ longitude in the WGS84 geographic coordinate system. Null Island is erroneously associated with large amounts of geographic data in a wide variety of location-based services, place databases, social media and web-based maps. While it was originally considered a…

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'I think I discovered a military base in the middle of the ocean' -- Null Island, the most real of fictional places — HN submission

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 07:37:27 GMT

Null Island, the most real of fictional places [pdf]

70 points; 37 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

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'I think I discovered a military base in the middle of the ocean' -- Null Island, the most real of fictional places — mentioned by pella

'I think I discovered a military base in the middle of the ocean' -- Null Island, the most real of fictional places — HN submission