[OSM-talk] Pokemon GO now uses OSM globally - influx of new users

[Michał Brzozowski]

FYI, Pokemon GO now uses OSM not only to generate spawns, but also to
display the in-game map. The news broke out on the web, especially on sites
like Reddit.

There is a spike of new users in some countries, like Brazil and USA.

Thankfully, the Reddit community [1] discourages people from adding bogus
features, but obviously nobody can be stopped from doing it. So do watch
for fake parks drawn for the purpose of influencing Pokemon spawn rate [2]

Also look out for people who delete house driveways. The map style in PoGO
overemphasizes them. So some may do "tagging for the game" ;)

[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/7gtvcz/reminder_now_that_ingame_map_is_from_osm_you_can/
[2]  To look at all new parks: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/tte
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