The syntax Q used is a little weird. The comma after are is unnecessary and is grammatically incorrect. We never talked about which this might mean.
Sentence formation matters.
What are you photographing here, anon?
Location? What you observed with your eye over time?
It's where the location is listed as zeroes in the lat/lon…that's the Greenwich/Equator cross.
You're right.
Somebody must either have entered 0,0 for the lat/long when location was unknown, or left that field blank and the application inferred 0,0 for a blank entry.
Data entry error or programmer error or by design since they cannot map the location if they don't know the location.
Yeah, somebody tried to larp us a few times with lat/long {0,0} and anons wised up, kek.
We need both.
Anon analysis AND current events (in whatever form we can get them).
Q said to match the crumbs with the news each day.
That equation has 2 terms: news & crumbs.
Sure. If you're the programmer, do you even know if reading a blank database value returns zero or (no data)? Your job is to map COVID incidents but if there's no location, you have to make a choice: (1) omit it or (2) display it at 0,0 or (3) put it all into a bucket and make up an imaginary place on the map and put it there with a note to the viewer. They chose to do #2. I probably would have too.