[Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

[Toby Murray]

On the flip side, this seems to be driving a second wave of pokemon
players coming to OSM and mapping parks over their homes, changing
things to footways and such nonsense. It is also driving beneficial
edits though. Hopefully the helpful users will stick around longer
than the trolls. Just keep an eye out for random parks appearing on
the map for a while.

Toby

On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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