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Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sepiroth154@feddit.nl 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 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)

[–] amzd@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

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