I'm not playing the game, as it would get in the way of making Mapillary pictures... If you could convince the creators of the game to include making pictures (and sending them out when back on wifi) to gain extra points of spots where we need such pictures, then yes. Without their cooperation, you'd need to convince them to install another app and it wouldn't make the players win extra points in the Pokemon game, so I don't think they'd be very interested.
Now, if we could launch a game of our own and hype that... Polyglot 2016-07-14 13:46 GMT+02:00 Svavar Kjarrval <sva...@kjarrval.is>: > Hi. > > Now that Pokémon Go[1] is gaining popularity, people in general will > spend more time outside walking around with their phone in hand (and > some with mobile USB chargers). I'm wondering if there might be > opportunities for OpenStreetMap to utilise that activity to encourage > the gamers to collect (non-infringing) data for OSM while they're > playing the game anyway. > > I'm not claiming I have any specific ideas at this point. Just wanted to > bring this point forward. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go > > With regards, > Svavar Kjarrval > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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