
To unveil the hidden motivation for location spoofing, we discuss the uneven spatial distribution of game rewards through mapping a large volunteered data set of worldwide Pokémons, and gaze at the major actors in the location-based game, including location spoofers, game designers, hackers and bots.

By reviewing five frequently-conducted location spoofing techniques for Pokémon Go, this paper critically examines location spoofing as an emerging spatial data quality In the realm of Cartography and GIScience, compared with well-studied spatial quality issues, our knowledge of location spoofing is still quite limited.

Location spoofing is an intentional act to masquerade locational information to somewhere other than the actual location where a network communication takes place.
