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The Path That Went Viral

UrbanRoaming erabiltzaileak 10 Uztaila 2025 datan argitaratua English hizkuntzan Azken eguneratzea 13 Uztaila 2025 egunean.

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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Le_Sharkoïste erabiltzailearen iruzkina 12 Uztaila 2025 01:41-eann

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

wjfarnell erabiltzailearen iruzkina 12 Uztaila 2025 04:10-eann

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

UrbanRoaming erabiltzailearen iruzkina 13 Uztaila 2025 15:50-eann

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

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