It’s not exactly the same, but I can vouch for StreetComplete being an incredibly good/similar game. You walk around the real world, and the app points out missing data in OpenStreetMap that you can fill in easily. You get the dopamine of a number going up, help dethrone proprietary map dominamce, and get some good excercise in in the process.
Up is exactly the direction I like numbers to go!
You want the murder rate number to go up?!??
Uhhh this is fun!
Is the map data federated?
It’s a central server i believe.
Well, it’s dumb data, so we don’t speak of federation (which happens between services), but basically yes.
Anyone can download the data and the TL;DR for your right to using the data is:
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors.
As a result, there are also many servers which mirror the data, i.e. provide a separate copy you can download, which is effectively like federation.
That’d be awful for me, my primary use of google maps is streetview to figure out what places look like before I go there
You know, I would really like to try this.
You can see this in Waze if you open the map editor. you can only edit a certain radius around where you’ve been, so your editable area is like a fog of war.
Do you need to have used Waze? Or does it pull from my Google maps data?
So… how do you open the map editor these days? I used Waze and added roads and stuff back in the day before Google bought it, but I just opened the app and can’t seem to get back into that “mode”. Sorry for the dumb question…
Play Pikmin Bloom. It does exactly this, and can track your step counts/location in the background.
I’ll wait until they add fast travel.
That’s basically what public transport is.
You folks actually leave the house? Impressive!
This is reposted all the time and the answer has kept being: Pikmin Bloom. It’s F2P, you reveal the areas you physically visit and the rest of the map is grey. It’ll track your steps and location in the background, so all you have to do is have your phone on you.
I would visit every corner of the world trying to find all the loot and collectables
Because of the GDPR, Google offers a download of all collected data about you. When you have your location history enabled, this should be part of it. If that’s in a useful data format to parse, one could program this with the actual data of one’s movement
Indeed. One can see the reverse of that idea on their Google Timeline.
That’s cool but a pretty difficult way to regularly update the fog…
Stop giving Google ideas on how to track us even more.
They already have this data for most people. This could already be a thing
Oh no, not a visual representation of data they already have as a matter of course by the very nature of a map app or GPS!
YES! I can’t use the GPS on my phone because of the data it collects
My map would look really sad
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Everyone in this thread should try geocaching! It is really fun
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Y’all should try Ingress. 😅 Doesn’t really have fog of war, but you do get to visit art in search of portals for portal-keys. 😜
It’s the company that made Pokemon Go’s more-serious first app that came out years before P-Go did, as one of the first of its kind, though it only got interest from the more niche communities. I played it until G+ got slaughtered, as it was the main base of communications and Ingress communities.
Pay to win
I haven’t really played it in a while, but last time I did, gameplay still prevented that. You were able to buy way too many of some things you are limited in using anyway, but things that would give you a boost in mass weren’t for sale. Only thing you can buy yourself out of is maybe 1/4th of the reasons to go outside, but you can’t really play without the other 3/4th, and I have never paid, nor been beaten by somebody that did…
Anyway, all that was at least 3 years ago, so I’m not vouching for any possible changes to the contrary right now…
But It would amaze me if they did make it pay to win now, though. Niantic was always very strict in fair gameplay when it came to Ingress…
My entire city is owned by one guy and my math makes it either he’s been hoarding for a decade just to dunk on me or he bought his way through. He would literally, for weeks, undo any progress I made within hours until I just stopped bothering.
I can do that and like I said, I never paid nothing. I didn’t hoard, but as a longtime player you got stronger. So it’s not pay to win, it’s still play to win…
No offense, but your conclussion doesn’t fit your description. You’re angry you can’t win against someone that you say might have been hoarding stuff (or is maybe doing the work for getting it daily as I used to do…) I could literally bring down Level 8’s since I was Level 5, and they stood no chance if I had been scavanging with Ingress all day first and they didn’t, yet catch me after one of those as a second player and you might win easily until I restock… That’s gameplay, not paygame. 😅
And the fact any player on his own can only max build level 5 portals and you need 3 other people at level 8 at least to make a Level 8 portal kinda stops pay to play. On your own you stand no chance against a group… So if your entire city is just 1 guy, the portals can’t be over level 5, if they are he has help.
Either way, when you attack portals, you should go stand on the Resonators, not the center of them, and when placing resonators you need to be as far as your circle allows you to stand from the portal, so they spread further apart and aren’t as easily destroyed by someone bursting in 1 spot.
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Did this dude fast travel? Like why are there separated clear areas on the bottom left and bottom right?
Gotta hold the map in your off-hand while traveling or it won’t autocomplete
Rookie mistake
What are subways?
Disguised loading screens?
Whoa didn’t know the map was layered, so the subway opens up the underground layer?
Yes, with secret missions and drugs and hookers. Tunnel snakes rule!
Everytime somebody of your family or friends is inside the known area there should be an alert: reinforcement has arrived.
Or an alert about new options if you unfog a new building like a restaurant.I had an idea where I would walk in a radius of few kilometers and walk on every street, etc. I wonder how long would it take, lol.
Someone make an app for that :P
There you go (not mine): http://www.everystreetchallenge.com/ or https://citystrides.com/
CityStrides! It gets very confused if you don’t actually live in a city, ours wants us to complete our entire county, but it’s still fun anyway.
