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JumpCrisscross | on: Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
> overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone-driven Theaters of War would be a tiny sliver

Is Pokémon Go not played in the Middle East, India, Taiwan, Korea or Japan?

pj_mukh | parent | next
Which of those are active theaters of war? Pokemon Go wasn't that big in Iran or Lebanon and even there, there aren't any reports of significant drones deployed there.

The only place I can imagine is maybe Ukrainian drones in Russia. Still, not a tonne of data there to be useful (as compared to say Tokyo or New York).

lbrito | root | parent | next
>Which of those are active theaters of war?

All of them but Japan?

MEA has stuff going on beyond Iran, Lebanon or whatever country the US decides to invade this week. India has two nuclear neighbours with border disputes and weekly scuffles, sometimes a downed jet fighter or two. Taiwan is probably the biggest geopolitical tension/war/invasion possibility of our time. Korea is in a stalemate unfinished war for decades. Japan has its own very real dispute scenarios with China.

I know drone scans from Pokemon Go probably won't help in the Himalayas or South China Sea, but those regions are far from trouble free

JumpCrisscross | root | parent
As I’m thinking about this, I suppose Apple Maps and OpenStreetMap are about as problematic as Niantic’s data.
tokai | root | parent
Yes, and star maps can do the same when its night and clear. This is way over blown.
JumpCrisscross | root | parent
> star maps can do the same when its night and clear

Works less well if you want to use structures for radar cover.

saidnooneever | parent
or ukraine or russia, and ofc people in africa dont have phones or internet -_-.

ofc going by the entire surface of the earth its not a lot of places, but i would never call such a thing statistically insignificant..