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Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
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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...