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Ask HN: How does Pokemon Go know all of the landmarks in each city?

1 points by gillis ↗ HN
There must be some API work at play... Does anyone have information on this?

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skiman10
It uses the database of user submitted portals from Ingress.
minimaxir
The data was user-submitted from the game Ingress over the period of several years.