Pokémon Go-style AR games will need permits if they want to include Milwaukee parks
A new ordinance approved by the Milwaukee County Board will require developers of “location-based augmented reality games” like Pokémon Go to get a permit before including public county park locations in their games, per a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The news comes at the end of a process that began last summer, when the Milwaukee County Parks department filed a request to Niantic to follow local county ordinances and receive an event permit after an onrush of eager pokémon trainers swarmed Lake Park. That led to a public meeting in September where park supervisor Sheldon Wasserman advocated that the county sue Niantic for “running an event in the park without a permit,” causing what he described to the Milwaukee Journal…
