Pokémon Go relies heavily on Openstreetmap for controlling what types of Pokemon spawn and where.
A recently added pokémon spawns in "beach" areas. Some users may place fake beaches near areas they frequent.
That being said, I would also expect to see a boost in legitimate beaches being added on to the maps now.
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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 2y
FFS. This is why we can't have nice things.
Edit: To clarify, people corrupting free and open datasets to cheat at a mobile game, without regard to others using the dataset is an example of why we can't have nice things.
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
To be fair, there are far more people that got into updating maps in their local area because of Pokemon Go. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334378297_How_an_augmented_reality_game_Pokemon_GO_affected_volunteer_contributions_to_OpenStreetMap
We can still have nice things, there are a few bad apples that we just need to look out for.