null island
description: a fictional place located at zero latitude and zero longitude, often a default in mapping errors
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PostGIS in Action, 2nd Edition
by Regina O. Obe and Leo S. Hsu · 2 May 2015
parlors. Points in geography correspond to longitude and latitude, and distances are always computed in meters. This example puts your home on the Republic of Null Island (http:// www.nullisland.com), and the pizza stores are on islands to the northeast and the Licensed to tracy moore <nordick.an@gmail.com> www
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
by Matt Parker · 7 Mar 2019
. The LAPD fixed this with a time-honoured method for taking care of a sudden glut of criminals: it transported them to a distant island. Null Island. Null Island is a small but proud island nation off the west coast of Africa. It’s located about 600 kilometres south of Ghana, and you can
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software of your choice: 0,0. Fun fact: its coordinates look like the facial expression of anyone deported there. For, you see, outside of databases, Null Island does not exist. It really does live up to its slogan: ‘Like No Place on Earth!’ Bad data is the scourge of databases, in particular
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generations, cartographers have been sneaking fictitious places into real maps (often as a way to expose people plagiarizing their work), and it was inevitable that Null Island would take on a life of its own. So, they literally put it on the map.fn2 If you believe their marketing material
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, Null Island has a thriving population, a flag, a department of tourism and the world’s highest per capita Segway ownership. Even when the data has made
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NBA players: 166.17910–166.44776 non transitive dice: 141.17910, 160.00000–162.14925 non zero: 157.35821, 183.20896, 185.17910, 192.74627 Null Island: 254.50746–255.95522 null meal: 197.74627, 199.26866–200.50746 oddly specific: 117.2089552238806, 139.1194029850746, 190.5074626865672, 245.7462686567164 off-by-one
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, I’m referring to an XMLEncoder problem in Apache Flex. Check out bug report FLEX-33644. 2 Most online maps show nothing but water where Null Island should be – except the open-source map data Natural Earth, which has included a 1-metre-square spot of land at 0,0 since version
PostGIS in Action
by Regina O. Obe and Leo S. Hsu · 2 May 2015
parlors. Points in geography correspond to longitude and latitude, and distances are always computed in meters. This example puts your home on the Republic of Null Island (http://www.nullisland.com), and the pizza stores are on islands to the northeast and the southeast. If you performed the same distance computation using