The dedication is real to some Pokemon GO players, as they are now altering OpenStreetMap by putting fake beaches in certain locations to benefit their chances of catching a new rare addition to the ...
A large and popular open-source mapping database used by many companies, apps, and websites is currently dealing with a strange problem: Random, fake beaches are appearing in places like backyards, ...
The geospatial fraud was as rampant as it was frivolous, but a bigger danger was lurking. Bo Zhao, a geographer focused on geographic information systems (GIS), was working on his PhD at the Ohio ...