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PointlessOne :loading: (pointlessone@status.pointless.one)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 15:36:37 JST PointlessOne :loading:
- SkaveRat 🐀 :verified:
@h3mmy @skaverat I guess the question refers to how some systems treat missing data as 0 and if this has any effect.
There was a few stories about similar things.
A guy got a license plate NULL and started getting tickets to random people from all over his state.
Another person got harassed for stealing phones because tracking system put a pin on map at their house. Turns out the system didn’t have more precise data than a country so it put the pin at a geographic center of the USA which happens to coincide with that house.
Also, Null Island. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
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  Null Island is the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude (0°N 0°E), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. The name is often used in mapping software as a placeholder to help find and correct database entries that have erroneously been assigned the coordinates 0,0. Although "Null Island" started as a joke within the geospatial community, it has become a useful means of addressing a recurring issue in geographic information science. Physical location The point on the Earth's surface defined as Null Island is located in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 600 kilometres (370 mi) off the coast of West Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea. A weather buoy, named the Soul buoy after the soul music genre, is permanently moored at the location. The nearest land to Null Island is a small islet 570 km (354 mi; 307.8 nmi) to the north (...
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