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

[Shaun McDonald]

On 9 Sep 2009, at 17:00, Ian Dees wrote:

> 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...

The game is built using Flash so the osmify bookmarklet won't work as  
it needs the javascript api instead.

>
> 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.

They are using data from before 25 July 2009 due to the following way  
having a typo in the game. :-)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4438429/history

Shaun

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