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

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:

> Does the osmify bookmarklet
> <
> http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2007/12/31/new-version-of-osmify-bookmarklet/
> >
> work in the Monopoly game?
>

No. It appears that they might be using a special instance of the Google
Maps API so the classes might be different? I'm not entirely sure what the
OSMify bookmarklet does...

I hope the game is using a fixed snapshot of OSM data, so that players don't
> have an incentive to add bogus new streets they can then buy cheaply...
>

It'll be impossible to tell until next week (new planet dump), really. I
would imagine that they are just using one dump ... there's no positive
reason to keep OSM up to date and lots of negative reasons to do so.
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