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 convey 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 travel past times 50,000 most requested map tiles past times map developers as well as the users of their maps.

The Mapbox written report Predicting Data Curation inward OpenStreetMap is an endeavor past times Mapbox to compare OpenStreetMap coverage with user demand, inward fellowship 'to predict areas that involve 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 as well as then the to a greater extent than people desire to thought maps of that area. However in that place is 1 glaring hot-spot inward the nitty-gritty of the Atlantic Ocean which receives a lot of map traffic despite its apparent global insignificance.

Could this anomaly inward the Atlantic Ocean genuinely endure the place of Null Island? Why else would a seemingly blank infinite inward the Atlantic Ocean acquire thus much map traffic? Mapbox for 1 seem happy to advert this topographic point every bit the existent place of Null Island.


To this solar daytime Null Island remains largely unexplored as well as its real beingness remains a mystery to much of the world. Part of the mystery surrounding Null Island is maybe due to the ongoing fence with geographers as well as cartographers virtually its exact location.

The cartographers at Esri convey been working difficult for centuries desperately trying to endure the start to necktie downwards the actual place of Null Island. Finally the results of Esri's 400 yr former crusade to map Null Island has been published inward the degree of an Esri map, called Nill Points.

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

If yous desire to larn to a greater extent than virtually the history of Null Island as well as its wonderful civilization as well as people yous should take in the The Republic of Null Island official website.