Changeset: 56631684
Removed suspicious, pokemon related objects
Closed by Constable
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created_by | iD 2.6.1 |
host | https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit |
imagery_used | Mapbox Satellite;Esri World Imagery |
locale | it |
Discussion
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Comment from Keleent
Why do you care about pokemon related objects. Leave them be . It doesn't do any harm... Blame Niantic for their stupid system that doesn't help players.
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Comment from freebeer
Why do I care about Nazi swastikas drawn all over Israel? Because they don't exist. And like Pokémon fiction, they damage the credibility of OpenStreetMap as a factual database that can be taken seriously by thousands of professional, business and government oganisations.
Who is Niantic, and why should we care? -
Comment from Constable
Hi there Keleent.
Looks like freebeer already explained the reason behind my edit but I'll give it a try by myself.
Openstreetmap is a project which aims to provide a free high quality map of the world. The project started years and years ago and thanks to our hard work the it has a really good reputation right now, so that a lot of professionals, companies and smartphone apps use our map.
For those reasons we can't allow those kind of fictional objects to be on the map.
Luckily or unluckily (depends on which side of the barrier you are) pokemon decided to switch to our map as a background map of your game.
The main issue is that pokemon players don't have enough respect for other people work, then a lot of them decided to head over here and add fictional objects near their houses so that pokemon spawn there more often (every gamer would call them cheaters), which basically means vandalizing our map.
Some of them eventually understood that they were doing a bad thing, some others had to be stopped.
I don't have anything against you, it'd be nice to have you here editing our map and adding some real value to our project.
Please have a quick read here to find out a bit more about the Openstreetmap and pokemon relation.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tips_for_new_(Pokemon_Go)_mappersIt's pretty obvious that I'm going to double check your new edits and I'll add some comments in case I'll find some more suspicious objects.
Feel free to reply here.
Thank you
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