Cartographic Vandalism in the Era of Location-Based Games—The Case of OpenStreetMap and Pokémon
Posted in Publications, VGI Group on Mar 28th, 2020
User-generated map data is increasingly used by the technology industry for background mapping, navigation and beyond. An example is the integration of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data in widely-used smartphone and web applications, such as Pokémon GO (PGO), a popular augmented reality smartphone game. As a result of OSM’s increased popularity, the worldwide audience that uses OSM [...]