Still, I think the location scanning isn’t as valuable as the pathing data they’ve been collecting. Besides, Google Maps has images of the majority of these scans anyway. But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths.
Sure, but nobody knows what “an ingress” is but almost everyone has heard of Pokemon. I’d also assume the size of the player base is not comparable.
Not by a long shot even at Ingress’ peak.
Still, I think the location scanning isn’t as valuable as the pathing data they’ve been collecting. Besides, Google Maps has images of the majority of these scans anyway. But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths.
FTFY. Crowd control.
Google maps has images of streets, they don’t have images of the middle of a park or the middle of a Hospital lobby.