1.
The Tangled story of
Pokemon Go and OSM
2018 11/17 State of the Map Asia
Dennis Chen

2.
● OSM ID: Supaplex
● Day Job: Tech Reporter
● Wikipedian
● OpenStreetMap Taipei Meetup
Dennis 陳瑞霖

3.
Third Rank
http://osm.kcwu.csie.org/stats/

4.
Hiking Map Data - Rudy Map
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154544537337138&set=gm.676811479141135&type=
http://sea.tokyo.idv.tw/?p=3004
● OpenStreetMap+D
epartment of
Interner DEM data
● Active Hiking
Community with
Editing ability

5.
OpenStreetMap Cache Server
Longma in Hsinzhou
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers

6.
Open Source Conference -
COSCUP

7.
Tainan Safari
https://pokemongolive.com/zh_hant/p
ost/tainan-safari-zone/

8.
Tainan Safari
https://pokemongolive.com/zh_hant/post/tainan-safari-zone/

9.
Pokemon Go relation with OSM
● In 2016, someone find out the co-relation of
OSM and Pokemon Go
● What monsters appear in Spawn determine by
environment data from OpenStreetMap (at least
is a factor)
● Ex, we have water type monster near the river
or pond, and co-relation with OSM data
● In game map still use Google Maps Data

10.
Spawn rate for Pokomon
https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/basic-guide-open-street-maps

11.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5y9if1/osm_and_pok
%C3%A9mon_spawn_correlations/

12.
First In game Map update
● November, 2017
● In game map use OpenStreetMap data to render
● All players notice the difference. Some place just has
basic road network, the same in the in game map
● In Taiwan most are complain that the building data is far
less compare to previous version
● There are some broken titles that don‘t appear
● There are military landuse on the broken titles

13.
https://technews.tw/2017/12/01/why-the-road-is-gone-pokemon-go-

14.
Just on the Riverside

15.
Second Map Update
● January, 2018
● Just in game map
was change, no
spawn rate change
● Fix the broken tile
issue
https://technews.tw/2018/01/30/pokemon-go-first-update-after-openstreetamp-map-data-switch/

16.
Park is added more
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/04/01/niantic-openstreetmap-collaboration/

17.
Forum discussion

18.
OpenStreetMap Vs Pokemon Go

19.
Niantic Motive
● Even they are close related, the map money is
still huge
● No update time is known
● Sometimes has to wait for months to make the
edit effect in Pokemon Go

20.
The Player who could not get ex-
raid in Botanicl Garden

21.
Because the Park is relation
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4601743

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Edit War
https://osmcha.mapbox.com/changesets/63852121?filters=%7B%22users%22%3A%5B%7B
%22label%22%3A%22lance88822%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22lance88822%22%7D%5D%2C
%22date__gte%22%3A%5B%7B%22label%22%3A%22%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22%22%7
%5D%7D

23.
Some thoughts
● Pokemon Go uses OSM data makes OSM
more well-known
● Due to Google Maps raise its price, more
company will use OSM data in some form, the
OSM community should be prepared
● QA challenge, OpenStreetMap should set a
general goal to achieved, with companies have
their own goal

24.
Thank You
● b92612009@gmail.com
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● Twitter: dennisc140