[Talk-us] Pokémon Go no officially using OpenStreetMap

[Rihards]

On 2017.12.05. 00:25, Toby Murray 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.

some coverage on this :
https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/4/16725748/pokemon-go-map-changes-openstreetmap
(and they got the name right).

good thing they also linked to
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/12/30/tips-pokemon-go/ .

> 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.-- 
 Rihards