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The Path That Went Viral

Skrevet av UrbanRoaming den 10 juli 2025 på English. Sist oppdatert den 13 juli 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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Diskusjon

Kommentar fra Le_Sharkoïste den 12 juli 2025 kl. 01:41

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

Kommentar fra wjfarnell den 12 juli 2025 kl. 04:10

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

Kommentar fra UrbanRoaming den 13 juli 2025 kl. 15:50

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

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