<html><head></head><body>They're using the same map they used in Ingress, a game they launched when still part of Google. That one is known to have come from Google. It makes sense that any map databases they had when the break happened would still be owned by the company; they just wouldn't have maps that included changes since then. <br>
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A co-worker plays that game, and he and I compared Pokémon places in our area with the ones in that game, and they're identical. <br>
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Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 30, 2016 9:40:56 AM EST, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Warin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Targeting Pokemon contributors falls into a trap... the assumption that a particular activity/group are all inclined to vandalism.</blockquote></div><br />Another trap, too: Assuming that Niantic and/or Nintendo are using OpenStreetMap for this game. And if they are, then they're doing so without attribution. Without any attribution and with Niantic no longer part of Alphabet (Google's parent company), it's not clear where they're getting their map from.</div></div>
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