OK. I've not looked at Open Street Map for some time. I only mentioned millitery because they are also not safe at times. You can't focus on one area of safety. It needs to cover all safety issues within reason. Otherwise what's the point? It's OK they didn't die on the railway. They got hit by some millitery bullets. Oh that's OK then. No its not, they still died.Nobody was writing about military exclusion areas, but specifically about railway track in areas with sufficient population to be interesting to Niantic. However OpenStreetMap already has UK military exclusion areas marked as well as other sensitive sites such as AWE.
OpenStreetMap includes the current layout of Reading station including the location of Boots on the new overbridge. If this level of detail is available to an open source project then I still don't see the problem for companies with the resources of Google and Nintendo to make the active railway 'out of bounds' for Pokémon but to place the 'hot spots' in or near station buildings.
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I quite agree.Please don't use OSM as the font of all accuracy. To do this properly requires data surveyed to the accuracy that is available in commercial products that use surveying grade equipment. I say that as someone who worked with mapping data for 11 years and as a contributer to OSM. In the UK that means OS MasterMap which is generally accurate to 1:1250. I would also not consider smartphone GPS to be accurate (in my last job my smartphone GPS put me in the Solent despite the office being about 500m inland) meaning the buffer around features would be large.
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