"Compilation thread of visual map skin update to OpenStreetMaps"

#PokemonGO: What is happening?A gradual country-by-country rollout of changing the visual map skin from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap data is currently occurring. For most users, this update seems to be exclusively visual (not spawn-related or nest-related) but more on exceptions later.Countries now using OSM1. South Korea in February, using May 2017 data (has this been updated to a later version?)2. Australia - November 283. Brazil and Canada - November 304. New Zealand and parts of Asia (India, Japan, Philippines, Cambodia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore) - December 15. Maybe all of Europe (reported so far are Finland, Greece, Slovakia, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Scotland, Serbia, Switzerland, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina - December 16. Israel - December 1NOT updated per December 1 UTC 00:23USA, Mexico, maybe Africa and the rest of South AmericaOther informationThe version of OSM being used for the map skin, according to research in Australia by u/WoodWoseWulf, is a version between 5 to 21 August 2017.Although most people have not reported any changes in spawn points or spawn mechanics or nests (which before was not affected by Google Maps, the previous map skin), one person, u/Equinox_Shift of Ottawa, Canada, has reported water biome Pokémon spawning at new swimming pools added.Nesting data is still using 22 January 2017 OSM version. Use http://ift.tt/2iutwRJ to find out. You can change the date at the top left if you want to see the potential changes for August 2017. If you experience new nests or new spawn mechanics, please report it!Map copyright information has been removed with the update per u/hage_hgGlitches are being reported. Places mapped on OSM are not showing up in game. There are two possibilities, either they were not mapped by August 2017 or if they have been, then this a problem on Niantic's end where map tiles are not loaded, report to NianticSome people in Toronto, Canada and the UK/Ireland are still on Google Maps, not seeing changes.Anyone can sign up and update OSM. Here are some tips for new mappers, as brought up by u/WoodWoseWulf. Read in English or Deutsch or 日本語 or Українська or HrvatskiFurther research neededAre all countries using the same (date) map data from OSM? If so, what is the date, right now we have a range of 5 August 2017 to 21 August 2017.Have spawn mechanics been updated? Are there water spawns at newly appearing swimming pools?Have nesting data been updated? (Not since January, from what I see personally). via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2AhRbvd