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Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Why does every article fail to mention that the ingame map only updates once every 3 years or so? And that this griefing is most likely done once per person, until they find out that the game isn't updated? (Because it's not sensational)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That doesn’t change the fact that it causes problems for openstreetmap

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It does not. But it means they are trying to limit the damage caused by griefers, and moreso than just displaying a popup message with "please don't grief openstreetmaps" or something. Imagine how bad it would be if changes to openstreetmaps actually were immediately imported into the game...