Ask HN: How does Pokemon Go know all of the landmarks in each city?

Posted by gillis on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:51PM
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There must be some API work at play... Does anyone have information on this?

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Re:Ask HN: How does Pokemon Go know all of the landmarks in ... by minimaxir on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:53PM (#12147613)

The data was user-submitted from the game Ingress over the period of several years.

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Re:Ask HN: How does Pokemon Go know all of the landmarks in ... by skiman10 on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:52PM (#12147611)

It uses the database of user submitted portals from Ingress.

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