Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon - eviltoast

OpenStreetMap contributors have been dealing with Pokémon Go players for years.

  • D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    This would be an interesting seed for a horror themed short story.

    Somebody finds themself sent to some horrible place when following a computer navigation system and has to survive whatever “horror” scenario and the post script at the end of the story is that the person was sent there because somebody fudged the navigation computer’s map data to cheat at a video game.