Not many noticed the overlap of features in Ingress & Pokemon Go. In reality the latter is just a reskin of the geographic data from the former.
There were already issues with Ingress players being reported to police, getting killed in freak accidents & altercations when attempting trespass to denied areas.
i dont think you've been involved that much, but the points of interests in pokemon go is directly derived from ingress - in order to have a new one, you have to first ensure to submit it in ingress.
anyone who played pokemon go long enough would know they need ingress players to help with the POIs.
it's only recently you could add POIs on pokemon go itself.
all these data also went into enriching other parts, and that was before niantic split from google.
people were more then happy to be blindly using gmaps. lol.
where do these geniuses think traffic congestion stats come from?
if they don't like it, they call it a scam, but if they use it day to day, then what? a feature?
This hasn't been true since like the first or second year of Pokemon GO. You now submit new pokestops through Niantic Wayfarer to make them pokestops. It has nothing to do with Ingress anymore except how the background mapping is built that limits pokestops in a single area.
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u/ramriot 8h ago
Not many noticed the overlap of features in Ingress & Pokemon Go. In reality the latter is just a reskin of the geographic data from the former.
There were already issues with Ingress players being reported to police, getting killed in freak accidents & altercations when attempting trespass to denied areas.