论文标题
“我认为我在海洋中间发现了一个军事基地” - 零岛，是虚构的地方中最真实的地方
'I think I discovered a military base in the middle of the ocean' -- Null Island, the most real of fictional places
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论文摘要
本文探讨了Null Island，这是一个虚构的地方，位于0 $^\ Circ $ latitude和WGS84地理坐标系中的0 $^\ Circ $经度。 Null Island与大量基于位置的服务，数据库，社交媒体和基于Web的地图中的大量地理数据错误相关。尽管它最初被认为是地理空间社区中的一个笑话，但本文将展示其存在的含义，无论是技术和社会本质上的含义，促进了Null Island作为地理信息的基本问题，需要更广泛的意识。本文总结了导致数据与空岛相关的错误来源。我们确定了四个进化阶段，这些阶段有助于解释这个虚构的地方如何发展并确立自己，成为一个超越地理空间专业的实体，直到视觉艺术和一般人群发现的地步。在提供了可以在（0、0）上找到的数据的准确说明之后，讨论了Null Island的地理空间，技术和社会含义。提供了避免将数据放错数据到空岛的准则。由于数据可能会继续出现在此地点，因此我们的贡献旨在介绍Giscientist和普通人群，以提高对此错误来源的认识。
This paper explores Null Island, a fictional place located at 0$^\circ$ latitude and 0$^\circ$ longitude in the WGS84 geographic coordinate system. Null Island is erroneously associated with large amounts of geographic data in a wide variety of location-based services, place databases, social media and web-based maps. While it was originally considered a joke within the geospatial community, this article will demonstrate implications of its existence, both technological and social in nature, promoting Null Island as a fundamental issue of geographic information that requires more widespread awareness. The article summarizes error sources that lead to data being associated with Null Island. We identify four evolutionary phases which help explain how this fictional place evolved and established itself as an entity reaching beyond the geospatial profession to the point of being discovered by the visual arts and the general population. After providing an accurate account of data that can be found at (0, 0), geospatial, technological and social implications of Null Island are discussed. Guidelines to avoid misplacing data to Null Island are provided. Since data will likely continue to appear at this location, our contribution is aimed at both GIScientists and the general population to promote awareness of this error source.
