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Yeah that's what they do, unless something changed.

I haven't been paying attention recently, but it used to be pretty common to see big threads discussing the impact of an update.

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Hmm, how often do you think they do it? If it's already months, and people are still posting fake OSM data, that's evidence against my hypothesis above

For Pokemon go, it could be once per year:

Aug 2023: https://old.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1646shv/open_...

Oct 2022: https://pokemongolive.com/en/post/mapupdates-2022/

Pikmin bloom updated once at Feb 2024 after launch at Oct 2021:

https://twitter.com/NianticHelp/status/1760694331466224078

Wow I'm amazed if people are creating fake beaches and waiting that long to use them. Or do they know in advance when the update is going to happen?

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