New Mapping Goose Egg Island

People searching for Null Island on Mapbox

The exact place of the mysterious Null Island has managed to evade explorers for centuries. Two maps released this calendar week may accept in conclusion solved the mystery.

Earlier this calendar week Mapbox released a beautiful looking map of the most requested locations on Mapbox. The map (pictured above) shows the overstep 50,000 most requested map tiles past times map developers together with the users of their maps.

The Mapbox study Predicting Data Curation inward OpenStreetMap is an endeavor past times Mapbox to compare OpenStreetMap coverage amongst user demand, inward club 'to predict areas that take away improve tracing inward OpenStreetMap'.

On the whole the most requested locations correlate fairly closely to population density. It seems that the to a greater extent than people in that place are inward an expanse together with then the to a greater extent than people desire to sentiment maps of that area. However in that place is 1 glaring hot-spot inward the oculus of the Atlantic Ocean which receives a lot of map traffic despite its apparent global insignificance.

Could this anomaly inward the Atlantic Ocean truly hold upwards the place of Null Island? Why else would a seemingly blank infinite inward the Atlantic Ocean acquire hence much map traffic? Mapbox for 1 seem happy to mention this topographic point equally the existent place of Null Island.


To this hateful solar daytime Null Island remains largely unexplored together with its really beingness remains a mystery to much of the world. Part of the mystery surrounding Null Island is maybe due to the ongoing ground amid geographers together with cartographers well-nigh its exact location.

The cartographers at Esri accept been working difficult for centuries desperately trying to hold upwards the offset to necktie downwards the actual place of Null Island. Finally the results of Esri's 400 yr erstwhile movement to map Null Island has been published inward the aeroplane of an Esri map, called Nill Points.

You tin terminate approximate for yourself how successful Esri has been inward their map making efforts. However the fact that the map nonetheless has 5,717 possible locations for the mysterious Null Island I intend speaks for itself. It appears that Null Island is non quite yet arrive at to scope upwards all of its mysteries.

If you lot desire to larn to a greater extent than well-nigh the history of Null Island together with its wonderful civilisation together with people you lot should view the The Republic of Null Island official website.

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