"Confirmation that OSM is permanent and may updated in the future."

#PokemonGO: Haven't seen references posted yet in regards to this week's AMA with Ingress' community manager.Since OSM seems to be a hot topic again and maybe some of you might be on the fence on whether it'll worth spending time on it, there's a few details in this week's Ingress AMA:Q44: Austin freddd123 - Can you give us any insight on why the map tiles in Ingress were changed from Google Maps to Open Street Maps and whether or not that's a permanent change?A44: This is a permanent change.Q89: mogu squad - I have edited OpenStreetMap because the roads were disappeared on the scanner by switching from Google map to OSM. When will the editing result be reflected in Ingress?A89: We are still determining the update frequency.http://ift.tt/2yo9kDf this AMA was done in conjunction with NIA-OPS, it's safe to say that OSM is here to stay and since they are trying to figure out "update frequency" that Ingress/PGO maps may see future changes down the road.TL;DR - OSM is permanent and Niantic is still trying to figure out how often to update changes. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2ABscV8