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The paper is based on the first 148 days of the game. At that point, gyms were not pokestops. That addition came later.

• alasdair_ 5y ago
  Somewhat embarrassingly, I was the person that wrote the code that put the gyms into the game and even I forgot that they didn’t function as pokestops in the beginning. That being said, safety was the number one criteria for placement every time. I spent so much time making sure we didn’t have things showing up in dangerous places like freeways. The idea that I did something wrong and that as a result someone may have been harmed is terrifying.
  • zpk65 5y ago
    What are you talking about? There are gyms at seemingly every travel stop on I-80 in Ohio and I can easily spin them passing by at highway speed as a passenger. They’re in range of several travel lanes because the gym dots are at the entrance door. They’re also not accidents because many are Starbucks promotions. Do you mean “don’t accidentally create pokestops literally on the freeway?” As in, 12345 I-80 as an address? Because I can think of many counterexamples to what you’re saying here.
    • alasdair_ 5y ago
      Yes, I mean literally on the freeway (or inside a nuclear power plant, or in the ocean, or many many other restrictions). A "travel stop" is a place designed for stopping so that sounds perfectly reasonable there would be one there.