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I was not aware of this used to open street maps at all. I thought it was based on Google Maps. Still.
If they used Google maps, Niantic would have to pay Google. That’s no Bueno. Why pay for content critical to your apps success when you could just freeload on volunteers work instead?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The game is currently in the process of adding monsters from Scarlet and Violet, and that’s where this story begins.
Two of the latest additions to the Pokémon Go roster are Wiglett and Wugtrio, riffs on the designs of Diglett and Dugtrio, who live on beaches and look kind of like garden eels.
OpenStreetMap contributors have discovered “beaches” that were actually located in residential backyards, golf courses, and sports fields.
Entire blog posts, wiki entries, and presentations from OSM mappers exist to bridge the knowledge gap, explaining the purpose of OpenStreetMap data to Pokémon Go users and breaking down Pokémon Go game mechanics for frustrated OSM contributors.
As that OSM blog post implies, not every user who discovers the OpenStreetMap project via Pokémon Go ends up messing with the data.
Though many users are “truth-stretching” vandals who create nonexistent parks, beaches, and footways to encourage specific Pokémon to spawn, others become “very careful, trustworthy” OSM users who “make many worthy additions to the map” by accurately mapping out places where OSM’s data is patchy or outdated.
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It blows my mind people still play this game. It was great, in 2017.
Also doubt this game will be the only source of bad data. We need better safe guards and checks so that some person can’t just delete France.
Now hold on a moment, I think we need to at least discuss this whole removing France thing further…
It would be easy to accidentally wipe some other country instead of France. That’s why we need to verify data
I can now see the importance of safeguards!
Let’s be real, it was mid even back then.
It was great, in 2017
It hasn’t stopped being great. In fact it’s better than it ever was.
We need better safe guards and checks so that some person can’t just delete France.
The map is updated millions of times per day. There are checks in place, but minor edits don’t get much review especially if it’s something simple like “this street has a bus stop”. Deleting France, yeah someone would notice that change and block it. Most software doesn’t use the realtime map state - they use a slightly older version of the map in part to avoid using a version of the map that has been compromised.
You really only see the current map state if you are editing the map.
