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The Path That Went Viral

نُشِر بواسطة UrbanRoaming في 10 يوليو 2025 باللغة English آخر تحديث في 13 يوليو 2025

OpenStreetMap went viral! Well, sort of.

Screenshot of video described below

A recent Instagram video highlighted an area where Pokémon Go had better trail coverage than Google Maps. You can see for yourself:

Original Instagram Post

OSM Town Mastodon Mirror

Currently, the video has over 12.6 million views and 733 thousand likes!

As you probably know, Pokémon Go uses OSM for its map data. So it’s cool seeing it acknowledged that OSM data performed better, even if it was misguided as a compliment towards Pokémon Go/Niantic.

With a little bit of searching, I found the path that they were on: Way #518694188. Added 8 years ago by BikeRoad.

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تعليق من Le_Sharkoïste في 12 يوليو 2025 في 01:41

Here less than 5% (let alone 1%) of people will recognize it as OSM data.

تعليق من wjfarnell في 12 يوليو 2025 في 04:10

It’s just nice to know that the data is helping people.

تعليق من UrbanRoaming في 13 يوليو 2025 في 15:50

@Le_Sharkoïste agreed! But it’s fun to see OSM edits appreciated either way!

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