Did I lose my maths? I count 6 pairs of spokes, not the 5 mentioned in the article.
Ingress players faced these issues with the portal mapping tools developed from outside Niantic, but the standard Ingress map was horribly slow most of the time. And since the Pokemon Go apps thus far seem to mostly be about finding pokemon (in-game tool being broken) and not PvP cheats, I think Niantic is probably…