[Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

[Alan Richards]

As a Pokemon Go player myself, everything I'm hearing in the community this
time around has been a lot more positive, with people suggesting to update
their local neighborhoods with the correct information. I'm not seeing the
same level of fake lakes and parks. Now this may just be the groups that I
get my info from, but I'm hopeful this might bring in some good and useful
updates, and maybe some long-term mappers.

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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