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FFS. This is why we can't have nice things.
Edit: To clarify, people corrupting free and open datasets to cheat at a mobile game, without regard to others using the dataset is an example of why we can't have nice things.
To be fair, there are far more people that got into updating maps in their local area because of Pokemon Go. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334378297_How_an_augmented_reality_game_Pokemon_GO_affected_volunteer_contributions_to_OpenStreetMap
We can still have nice things, there are a few bad apples that we just need to look out for.