2022
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.08383
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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

Levente Juhasz,
Peter Mooney

Abstract: 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 joke within the geospatial community, this article will demonstrate implications of its existence, both technological and social in nature, promoting Null Island as a fundame… Show more

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