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.n1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Peter Dobratz <pe...@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 _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us