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Beware of fake beaches (Pokémon Go)

Five days ago Niantic announced a new Pokémon in Pokémon Go, which spawns only in beaches. So it could happen that someone could add fake beaches in these days (I found two users already in Italy with a quick check), this is just a reminder to take a look in you local area. One method could be to filter natural=beach with “New mappers” tag in OSMcha or using an Overpass query such as: //courtesy of WoodWoseWulf on Discord [timeout:240] [bbox:{{bbox}}]; ( way[natural=beach](newer:"2024-04-23...

So it could happen that someone could add fake beaches in these days (I found two users already in Italy with a quick check), this is just a reminder to take a look in you local area. I have deleted some of the beaches where it was obvious (based on the Bing imagery that the mapper cited as a source) that they didn’t exist. Signed up a couple of hours after this post, and started adding a lot of beach nodes, particularly near Querétaro.

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