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Help with Open Street Maps

There is a gym near my house in a park-like area and in OpenStreetMaps I have marked it with "landuse:grass" and "leisure:park". With these edits, the gym should be qualified to be in a park. However, when i use the scanner to find park-eligible places, this does not show up. Neither when I am in the game. I am open to ideas that will help. Thanks, Alpha

Asked by PokemonGo_Alpha7 years 5 months ago
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by hkn 7 years 5 months ago

It will be a long time before the game updates with the edited OSM information.

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by aSp 7 years 5 months ago

The scan in question filters out all edits that have taken place since Niantic have taken a snap shot of OSM.
ANything since this date will not be added in game until Niantic take a new snap shot.

For all we know, they have already taken a snap shot that they are working with, that won't include anything since then.

We will only know when they update the map data in game.

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I have edits from over a year ago that have finally been added to the game, yet don't qualify under the overpass turbo metrics.

Parks now show up as parks in game, yet still have not become nests. I have yet to fully understand how OSM and PoGO work together.

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Others claim to have narrowed down the times of various snap shots that Niantic use - and what they are used for.
From what I have read, Niantic have a different snap shot used for nest information, and a different snap shot for EX raids, and another different one for the in game map.

If I find the link to the TSR article that had the dates of each snap shot, I will post it here.

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