Ok, it's getting sad now - When will the scanner get a new OSM visual update?
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It's been since December of 2017 and no timeline or commitment to updating the scanner's visuals has ever been given. What's the hold up? There's been countless edits and improvements to OpenStreetMap (aka FREE LABOR) that has been completely ignored in favor of a scanner that is typically devoid of building footprints, road updates and more.
Will there ever be an update to a new OSM dataset? If yes, then can we get an actual timeline as to when the scanner's old map visuals will be updated?
I've personally made thousands of improvements to OSM and have stopped doing it simply because if Niantic doesn't care, why should I?
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This is the map on the scanner you’re talking about? The streets are a light to middle gray; Buildings dark gray; Everything else black? Then the portal network sits on top of this, yes? I’m questioning what you’re regarding because I can’t figure what it is that needs to change.
What needs to change is the map needs updating. Not far from where I live there are entire suburbs that have been built since the map was last synched from OSM. It's showing completely black there should be a network of roads and bike paths. OSM updates in near real time as changes are made, but there hasn't been a map update in the scanner since Ingress moved from Google to OSM as the base map.
And another thing, the population density data set needs updating. It hasn't changed since the game launched in closed beta. Some of the data is now 10 years out of date. It's annoying to create a large field over a whole suburb and only get 5 MU because the back end still thinks it's a rural area.
Ah. Thank you. I suppose I live in a pretty long established area. The map not being correct never occurred to me. I mean I got that’s what the OP was saying, but it still didn’t make any sense to me be it the map has always appeared perfectly in tacked.
You should keep making valid updates to OSM to improve the quality of OSM. It's used by more than just Ingress.
It would be nice if prime would bring back the railroad tracks I used to see in classic ingress.
Makes trying new rail routes much less rewarding.
It'd be nice if we can get a NIA response :(
Tag them lol. We all want to know and so many new developments in my area that dont show on any of niantic maps just needs updating desperately. I know of a whole village that has genuinely been built that is not there according to ingame map.
@NianticBrian @NianticBC any ideas when an osm update is coming???
I think specially the Resources menu should state specifically what date they are grabbing the OSM data from.
Also for anybody who wants to look into OpenStreetMap, they made a page on their wiki specifically for Pokémon Go players that is just as beneficial for agents here.
The revision of OSM they're using is December 17th, 2017. They're able to update small areas of the map to fix OSM graffiti right now but they haven't given any word on actually updating the entire map.
Well it's at least 2 years old my road was built then and I'm not on map. Also a park was built at similar time bit earlier so year very out of date.
Soon™
Maybe they're putting that off till prime has achieved feature parity.
Or until prime does anything ingress used to do...
Maybe they're putting everything off until the end of the world. Feels like that to me.
Until they actually chime in here and respond, everything is the same speculation we've had for years now.
The weird thing is other AR games update their OSM sampling regularly. It's odd seeing Minecraft Earth have stuff that's not in ingress.
See what I mean?
No response :(
Hell, even Orna is more up to date with maps and that is done by ONE PERSON.
Because ME pay for it, people who is in charge of that as well paid for the mapping use to google unlike niantic which has no people for update that and got the mapping for free from OSM
Nope ME also uses OSM, I can tell cause I mapped six houses in a row in my neighbourhood and they show up in game.
Maybe it’s because Ingress is a free game.
Nope, it's just plain OSM. I updated the whole village to better reflect reality and my modifications are showing up on ME. Meanwhile, Ingress and PoGo are lacking several roads and buildings. Comparing both versions of the map is kinda sad tbh
How do i get access to it? Needs invitation?
Oh, don't mind. Figured it out.
It's not working properly in my phone. I'm getting black screen s the time.