Null Island Tourist Shirt

The shirt may be less funny for some residents of Butler County, Kansas who got swatted because a mapping firm did&#x27;t resolve unknown locations to Null Island, but rather than to the geographic center of the United States. Their house.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;tech-policy&#x2F;2016&#x2F;08&#x2F;kansas-couple-su...</a>

An older design is this one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnip&#x2F;null-island&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;null_island_2013.svg">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnip&#x2F;null-island&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;null_island_...</a>

It should be &quot;Est. Dec. 31, 1969 19:00-5:00&quot;.

Here it is with UNDEFINED STATES removed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmarks.net&#x2F;put&#x2F;null-island-sans-us.svg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmarks.net&#x2F;put&#x2F;null-island-sans-us.svg</a><p>It looked out of place, because (0, 0) is nowhere near the US.

I was going to purchase a T but it had &quot;England&quot; as a state, and while England is in a right old fucking state, it&#x27;s just not right.

Related. Others?<p><i>Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36987839">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36987839</a> - Aug 2023 (2 comments)<p><i>Null Island is one of the most visited places on Earth, and it doesn’t exist</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35651871">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35651871</a> - April 2023 (87 comments)<p><i>Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35592960">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35592960</a> - April 2023 (1 comment)<p><i>Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34860299">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34860299</a> - Feb 2023 (1 comment)<p><i>Null Island, the most real of fictional places [pdf]</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31080519">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=31080519</a> - April 2022 (37 comments)<p><i>Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21854780">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21854780</a> - Dec 2019 (56 comments)<p><i>Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21552176">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21552176</a> - Nov 2019 (1 comment)<p><i>Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19329101">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19329101</a> - March 2019 (1 comment)<p><i>If You Can’t Follow Directions, You’ll End Up on Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12090980">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12090980</a> - July 2016 (54 comments)<p><i>The Republic of NULL Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11734180">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11734180</a> - May 2016 (15 comments)<p><i>The Geographical Oddity of Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11600396">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11600396</a> - April 2016 (14 comments)<p><i>The Republic of Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10952593">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10952593</a> - Jan 2016 (2 comments)<p><i>A Brief History of Null Island</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10949292">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10949292</a> - Jan 2016 (7 comments)

I tried visiting Null Island but got stuck in NaN instead...

I’m reminded of Europe putting all publishers in their own country, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bookland" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bookland</a>.

A location that is half influenced by geometry (0 N) and half by politics (0 E)

Wikipedia: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Null_Island" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Null_Island</a><p>&gt; 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.

Ah, good memories of systems which were primarily tested against 0,0 and immediately showed issues apart as soon as they were tested against anything else. (radians&#x2F;degrees conversion issues are easily hidden when working near null island, for example)

The first time I ran into this, I was working on an application that tracks delivery trucks. I wondered how - and why - the hell the truck got to the ocean near Nigeria.<p>It&#x27;s important to output null &#x2F; None instead of zero if you don&#x27;t have any data!

This is simply the greatest tourist shirt of all time.

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I legit giggled when I saw this, love it!