As a Pokemon go player, I would say it isn't.

There's even a Pokemon exclusive to the middle east region: sandstorm pattern Vivillion. Lots of players there.

"The Middle-east" isn't a war zone. Even the parts of the middle-east that are, don't have any drone deployments. Lebanon maybe? Reports are thin.

Maxar is/was primarily a satellite data company, and to say Pokemon data would add any major value in any of today's active drone deployments with the level of Satellite coverage Maxar already has is a wide stretch.

Moreover, ground forces in the area would need pretty heavy jamming tech in place too for this kind of data to be useful. It's a sliver of a sliver of a sliver situation.

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WmWsjA6B29B4nfk 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> "The Middle-east" isn't a war zone.

According to Wikipedia, more than half of the Middle East countries are either belligerents or were otherwise attacked in the ongoing war.

	▲	bluGill an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Even with the relatively small countries in the middle east, a country is a large place and so being attacked doesn't make the whole a war zone.

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idiotsecant 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think pretty heavy ubiquitous jamming is absolutely a feature of modern warfare now. Ukraine is a model of what's to cone

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maratc 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Obtaining it never means having to scan anything at any time.

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oceansky 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's true, it's obtained from gifting.

But what I mean is that there are enough players there to be significant part of the ecosystem. The war made obtaining those Vivillion harder.

	▲	maratc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't understand how it's related. I am a daily player, I have scanned something once, the rewards were minuscule, I never did it again. I have that specific vivillon which was hard to get because not many players were from the relevant area even before the current events, and I just can't see how the war is related to any of this.