Fans of hit smartphone game trek to ‘only Pokémon Go holy land on peninsula’ following restrictions on Google Maps,leaving behind jobs and families South Korean Pokémon Go players own been forced to leave their domestic towns and flock to a remote city close to the North Korean border in order to play because of the country’s mapping restrictions.
As a location-based game augmented reality game, Pokémon Go relies on data from Google Maps to operate, and but South Korean security restrictions on mapping data own blocked Google from providing map features across a significant proportion of the country,including realtime information, 3D maps, and personal transport directions and indoor maps.
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Source: theguardian.com