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"There have been about 15 million submissions, and we've approved in the order of 5 million of these locations worldwide," Hanke said. The team then asked Ingress players to submit places they thought were worthy of being portals. "Things that were public artwork, that were historical sites, that were buildings with some unique architectural history or characteristic, or a unique local businesses." In the early days of Ingress, Niantic formed a beginning pool of portal locations for the game based on historical markers, as well as a data set of public artwork mined from geo-tagged photos on Google. "We basically defined the kinds of places that we wanted to be part of the game," Hanke said. Its users are responsible for helping create the data pool that determines where Pokéstops and gyms appear in Pokémon Go. Ingress, the augmented-reality multiplayer game, was launched in beta by Niantic in 2011. How Pokéstop and gyms locations were chosenĪll those Pokémon Go obsessives out there owe some serious thanks to a whole other set of gamers. "A lot of us worked on Google Maps and Google Earth for many, many years, so we want the mapping to be good," he told Mashable. The company spun off from Google's parent company Alphabet in 2015.įor Hanke, accurate mapping was integral to Pokémon Go. John Hanke, the CEO and founder of Niantic, is a Google veteran. He was one of the founders of Keyhole, the company Google bought to start Google Earth, and had a hand in Google Maps before forming Niantic. You and over three million of other contributors make OpenStreetMap possible.How to be the best, least annoying, 'Pokémon Go' trainer

do check the good practice guidelines for more tips.

do contribute your GPS traces, especially if you live in a rural area.

That will help your neighbor mappers to check the changes you make and maybe provide tips

do mention “pokemon” in your changeset comments and a few words about what you added/changed.

do check your own stats after you have contributed a bit! e.g.

with the Overview of OpenStreetMap Contributors map (you need to have contributed a bit before your nickname is shown)

do find other mappers that improve your neighborhood/city e.g.

do not add copyrighted data from other maps/sources.

do connect with the community! Find your country’s forum, mailing list/twitter account or other contact channel.

do you still have questions? Ask away at.

Tagging universities? Use amenity= university

tagging secondary institutions? Use amenity= school.

do connect your footways with the road network.

Want to add other features? Have a look at map features and search the wiki

want to add footways? Check what is considered as a footway: highway= footway tag docs.

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benches, cafes, fire hydrants, bicycle parking spots) or things you know (if your favorite cafe offers free Wi-Fi, the type of cuisine of the nearby diner, accessibility, opening hours, official websites, Wikipedia links) Do not add things -such as footways- that do not exist

#A POKESTOP MAP FOR POKEMON GO DRIVERS#

The map is used by pedestrians, people with disabilities, cyclists, hikers, canoeists, drivers and others.

do map things that exist on the ground.

Some tips for our new mappers coming from Pokémon Go: So, you want to find rare spawns and came to edit OpenStreetMap? Welcome to our community of people passionate about collaboratively building the best map ever! Tips for new mappers coming from Pokémon Go We’ve prepared the above guidelines to help understand some aspects of OpenStreetMap related to the game. It always takes new folks some time to get to know OpenStreetMap, and we hope Pokemon Go players will stick around to contribute some more. There is some new interest in editing the map from Pokémon Go players, presumably because the game is found to be bringing in updates when changes are made to OpenStreetMap.

#A POKESTOP MAP FOR POKEMON GO LICENSE#

We always like to see creative and unexpected uses of our free and open map data, and this certainly fits into that category! (Note: our open license does require crediting OpenStreetMap)

However there has also been speculation among some players that OpenStreetMap data is used to influence spawn points. This hugely popular mobile game uses OpenStreetMap data to generate the in-game map. If you want to edit the map too, read the hints below. This map is freely usable by everyone (and thus powers a lot of applications) and is freely editable by everyone (after making an account). It is the data that powers the maps on Facebook Maps, Instagram Maps,, OsmAnd and many more.

OpenStreetMap is a huge database with roads, rivers, forests, water. 3 Tips for new mappers coming from Pokémon Go.