[OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:

> Perhaps they are using OSM for data, dividing up the world into streets
> that
> players can buy and sell, but rendering the Google Maps tiles underneath.
> That seems a bit lame.
>

I'm playing it right now, and this appears to be exactly the case. They are
using the Google Maps API and so are showing Google's TeleAtlas tiles, but
when you search for a road to buy, it uses OSM data to look for roads in the
viewbox. When you pick the road to buy (the price seems to be related to the
length of the OSM way with a similar name= tag), the OSM data is used to
highlight the road.

It's very slow right now, but it seems pretty fun. They do correctly
attribute OSM data with CC-BY-SA, too.
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