Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2017-01-05 Thread Russ Nelson
Bill Ricker writes: > The PokeStop was at our exact target, "1899 MIT Observatory site" which is > moderately well known (on the park map, in FourSquare). [1] > http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/944663159#map=19/42.44109/-71.08359=D https://www.ingress.com/intel?pll=42.441303,-71.085092 >

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2017-01-05 Thread Toby Murray
As an ingress player, I can confirm use of ingress data for pokestops and gyms. Same location descriptions and images submitted by ingress players. Ingress saw a huge influx of new users when Pokemon Go launched. People created ingress accounts just so that they could use the ingress Intel map to

Re: [Talk-us] Am I wrong to be bothered by this?

2017-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi Tod, On 01/05/2017 09:26 PM, Tod Fitch wrote: > I monitor a number of places I’ve done mapping in and suspect I’ll be back to > in the future. Today I noticed a change set that covers nearly all of > California and Nevada [1]. It looks like this same mapper has even done some > changes

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2017-01-05 Thread Rihards
On 2017.01.05. 22:34, Bill Ricker wrote: > I have a possible confirmation that PokeGo is using OSM Points of > Interest to populate features, but not of edit vandalism. > > We went onto local hiking trails to document some local science history, > taking my daughter along for company and having

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

2017-01-05 Thread Bill Ricker
I have a possible confirmation that PokeGo is using OSM Points of Interest to populate features, but not of edit vandalism. We went onto local hiking trails to document some local science history, taking my daughter along for company and having someone under 50 to keep an eye on us oldsters. She

[Talk-us] Am I wrong to be bothered by this?

2017-01-05 Thread Tod Fitch
I monitor a number of places I’ve done mapping in and suspect I’ll be back to in the future. Today I noticed a change set that covers nearly all of California and Nevada [1]. It looks like this same mapper has even done some changes that span continents [2]. I guess I prefer geographically

[Talk-us] weeklyOSM #337 27/12/2016-02/01/2017

2017-01-05 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 337, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8535/ We apoligize to send a wrong URL in our last email. Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?:

Re: [Talk-us] First new 2016 NAIP imagery is now online (Massachusetts & Tennessee)

2017-01-05 Thread Mike N
On 1/4/2017 10:46 PM, James Mast wrote: I tested out the new 2016 TN link in JOSM before I sent the original email and it worked perfectly fine for me. I looked again and all is working now! It had been unusable for several weeks around the USGS transition, and I thought the whole NAIP