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The only place where roads cross this meridian, and where there are buildings very close to it, is in Fiji.
Software representation problems
Many geographic software libraries or data formats project the world to a rectangle; very often this rectangle is split exactly at the 180th meridian. This often makes it non-trivial to do simple tasks (like representing an area, or a line) over the 180th meridian. Some examples:
The GeoJSON specification strongly suggests splitting geometries so that neither of their parts cross the antimeridian.[2]
In OpenStreetMap, areas (like the boundary of Russia) are split at the 180th meridian.