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Who is building the 3D map of the real world?
Pokémon Go crowdsourced 30 billion urban images from 700 million players. Niantic sold the games to Scopely for $3.5 billion in 2025 and kept the map. Google Street View, Apple Look Around, Tesla's camera fleet, every Waymo on the road: mapping machines dressed as products. You thought you were playing a game. You were building an empire's atlas, for free.
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