For kids to play during breaks
Oh, so that’s why people went there! To play Pokemon Go! No wonder the DoJ isn’t proceeding to charge anyone with anything! It was just good, wholesome Pokemoning!
“How about pokemon go to the island”
That island takes up so much mindeshare for many millions of people. Of course someone would spoof their GPS position to propose a PokéStop or Gym there, just for the fun of it.
“Gotta catch 'em all”
- Jeff
I recently heard that a new law was made somewhere prohibiting stores from destroying unsold clothes. I’m upset that they were doing that in the first place
Raichu was in the Epstein files
EDIT: What I said in this comment probably is not true. While the changes I made were added to the map, only users can create pokestops via a review process, apparently. Must have been a coincidence.
Niantic uses Open Streetmaps to create their pokestops. Somebody probably created a P.O.I. on the island based on a real statue or structure which an algorithm then automatically turned into a pokestop.
Source: I sometimes contribute to OSM and the additions I make often turn into pokestops a couple of weeks after, especially in remote areas without other P.O.I.s nearby.
Ingress and PoGo use the same database of locations (portals, stops), and it was painstakingly built and added to by the (ingress) players, years before PoGo; location, name, description, reason for addition (art, historical significance, etc), pictures. Then they added the same ‘submit’ system for PoGo.
I was invited to ingress during it’s closed beta, 14 years ago, and was a very heavy player for the first two years, myself submitting several portals for review.
The (initial) financial reasons for these games? To map walking paths/navigation. Every player is supplying their GPS data while they play. The partnership with Pokémon was just an easy way to get extra players, and capture more of the market that wasn’t interested in the geeky lore of ingress. They have a whole microtransaction store now for both, but that was after they needed more cash.
Do you get anything for contributing to the Pokéstops?
No, I don’t play the game but am around people who do.
He just said that Nintendo scraps data from Open Street Maps so, probably no
They don’t have to scrape it. They just use the nominatim API like everybody else.
I suggest a competition to hack the servers and figure out everybody that collected it or whatever you do at one of those
They were recently sold to some middle eastern investment fund that plans to use it for data scraping. Would not be hard for them to make it public…
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