No it is using people to take pictures as they walk around their town and country, entering private, and government property as well as major businesses. Now certain areas are being made anti Pokemon and even countries like Iran have banned access, so have parts of Israel. Military bases, businesses that service the government, government restricted area, high security areas, etc., even city streets want the craters to stay out of traffic areas. People are getting in to fights to be the one to capture the virtual reality figures. Offices don't want employees tracking a figure and snapping pictures of important or confidential papers on someone's desk or coming out of a printer.
Everytime a figure is captured a picture of proof is taken.
People are spending thousands of dollars on airtime/data to play and sending back pictures that could be exposing global secrets.
It might seem like a joke but it could be very dangerous. Pin pointing weak spot in security around a power plant, when and where chemicals and nuclear material is being transported, troop movement, even troops playing during off time in some middle eastern country can show exact location for an enemy to strike.
This is not just people casually walking into traffic or walking into trees or glass walls. You could literally have people so intent on chasing the pokemons that they walk off a cliff or onto a train trace and not seeing where they actually are.
a door way to a business or in the park might be OK, but there are valid reason to block areas both inside and out from phone hunters playing the game.