OpenStreetMap
The Path That Went Viral
Publiée par UrbanRoaming le 10 juillet 2025 en English. Dernière mise à jour le 13 juillet 2025.OpenStreetMap went viral! Well, sort of.
A recent Instagram video highlighted an area where Pokémon Go had better trail coverage than Google Maps. You can see for yourself:
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.
Discussion
Commentaire de Le_Sharkoïste le 12 juillet 2025 à 1 h 41
Here less than 5% (let alone 1%) of people will recognize it as OSM data.
Commentaire de wjfarnell le 12 juillet 2025 à 4 h 10
It’s just nice to know that the data is helping people.
Commentaire de Preston Maness ☭ (aspensmonster) le 12 juillet 2025 à 20 h 42
Nice!
Commentaire de UrbanRoaming le 13 juillet 2025 à 15 h 50
@Le_Sharkoïste agreed! But it’s fun to see OSM edits appreciated either way!