[Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

[Bill Ricker]

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Peter Dobratz <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.


Thank you for sharing this.

I was guessing so, when my daughter said a couple of the walking paths
in our neighborhood had shown up in the game. ( I haven't added them
to GoogleMaps so was pretty sure what map it was :-).)

Glad to hear it's properly attributed.