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The Path That Went Viral

Postavio korisnik UrbanRoaming u 10 Јул 2025 na English Last updated on 13 Јул 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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Komentar korisnika Le_Sharkoïste u 12 Јул 2025 u 01:41

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

Komentar korisnika wjfarnell u 12 Јул 2025 u 04:10

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

Komentar korisnika UrbanRoaming u 13 Јул 2025 u 15:50

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

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