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Did you cheat, grief or troll?

I am putting a strong assumption that he has the same problem that a large chunk of players like myself have called 'ruralistis' or 'farmlandempti' where if you aren't in a large city or on a coast, your pokemon spawns for the first 8 months of the game were limited to pidgeys and rattatta and once in a blue moon there might be something amazingly rare like a Weedle, because our town data wasn't in the data source they used to calculate biomes.

Many player have noticed this and have been updating openstreetmaps.org data in hopes that Niantic does a biome refresh and that OSM is actually where they are sourcing their data from.

"updating" OSM = creating parks and rivers where they don't exist. It's an annoyance for OSM maintainers, there's a Slack channel that specifically flags things that look like they might be Pokemon Go users adding bogus features.

> and that OSM is actually where they are sourcing their data from

Which it isn't - they use Google Maps data. Tho GM uses OSM as one of their sources (apparently) so... YMMV

No. I open the app every day for 45-60 minutes when I go for a daily walk, no funny business.

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