[Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

Rihards richlv at nakts.net
Sun Dec 3 19:51:05 UTC 2017


On 2017.12.03. 21:34, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Peter Dobratz <peter at dobratz.us
> <mailto:peter at dobratz.us>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm not sure how many active OSM contributors also play Pokémon Go,
>     but the game is now officially using OSM for the basemap that
>     players see in the game (previously was using Google Maps data for
>     the base map).  The in-game about screen has text in the bottom of
>     the License section correctly attributing OSM.

wow, it indeed does. the previously empty map now has so much detail.
thank you for the notice.

> Ingress and the upcoming Ingress Prime and Harry Potter games are/will
> be using OSM as well.-- 
 Rihards



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