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I see a lot of geocoding at work and one of the real mysteries is that null island is a fair few miles around. 0,0 isn't good enough for some people; 0.00001,0.00002, etc always have to get involved. Reliably catching that variant of the "Actually, I think your address is wrong" error needs a null island at least 50 miles across.

If I had to guess, there's a UI somewhere that allows people to drag a pin to the exact right location when it isn't close enough, and feeds that back into a geocoding database. They can only drag for so long across the Atlantic before they give up.




Converting coordinates between different coordinate systems could give these figures.

I should probably add a check for this in my work, I think it only checks for null in WGS84 at present...


The distance between 0.00002,0.00002 and -0.00002,-0.00002 is only 0.006290km (or around 20 feet).


I believe that anything between (1,1) and (-1,-1) is safe to kill if you are are only dealing with land based coordinates.




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