Pokémon Go Players Altering OSM

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Pokémon Go Players Altering OSM

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OpenStreetMap community@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon

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OpenStreetMap contributors have been dealing with Pokémon Go players for years.

People are editing OSM to be able to get their Pokémon and others are changing OSM to mess with people so they can’t get them

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