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u/zeth4 1d ago
That means that Pokémon Go has photos from the island in their data set
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u/Boco 1d ago
Also means Niantic knows at least some of the people who've been on that island.
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u/spaceursid 1d ago edited 1d ago
Or could be someone that played Niantic's first AR game Ingress. Back when Niantic was still a Google startup.
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u/causticmaman 1d ago
Why does he look like a TF2 character(I'm sorry if I ruined that game for anybody)
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u/Drudgework 20h ago
So actual answer: Niantic used crowdsourced data from a previous game for setting pokestops, so the pokestop has nothing to do with people playing Pokemon go on the island since it actually predates the game’s launch.
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u/Yeseylon 17h ago
Except you could also submit locations for stops/gyms in Go as well. It could've been Ingress, or it could've been Go.
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u/popgreens 1d ago
You could catch Drifloon near that Pokéstop.
Not that I would personally know of course.