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The Path That Went Viral

UrbanRoaming が 2025年7月10日 に投稿 (English) 。 最終更新日 2025年7月13日

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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議論

2025年07月12日 01:41 Le_Sharkoïste からのコメント

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

2025年07月12日 04:10 wjfarnell からのコメント

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

2025年07月13日 15:50 UrbanRoaming からのコメント

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

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