The Pokemon Go craze is in full swing, with more than 30
million players hunting Pokemon around the world. However, it might be tough to
find new Pokemon to add to your roster, and not everybody has time to walk
around town hoping to encounter missing characters. Thankfully, there’s an app
for that – install Poke Radar right now if you need help catching
Pokemon. But if that’s not enough, then you should be aware of another cool
trick that uses Google Maps to point you to Pokemon near you.
Yes, you can call it cheating. But it gets the job
done, especially if the “Nearby” feature breaks down, which is the way to find
Pokemon inside the game.
Someone figured out how to extract location data from the
game, including the location of gyms, the items at various PokeStops and where
Pokemon will appear,The Verge reports. Developer Ahmed Almutawa
plotted the data on the map and posted the project on GitHub and Reddit.
Naturally, fans have started using the trick almost immediately, and they’re
contributing to it as well.
“The very first time [the map] was working properly it was
like 10:00 PM,” Almutawa said. “I opened the map, and there was a Dratini that
was three blocks down the road. I was like, ‘Nah, there’s no way it’s down the
road from here.’ But I go out, and I walk there and there’s a Dratini here. I
caught the Dratini my first try, so I was very proud of myself for that one.”
Unfortunately, there’s no easy-to-use app on your phone to
take advantage of this amazing Google Maps trickery for Pokemon Go. There are step-by-step
instructionson how to make it work though, but they aren’t necessarily
user-friendly.
Once completed, the process will display a Google Maps
view of all the Pokemon, PokeStops and gyms (see image above). The best thing
about it is that you can filter by specific items, although some coding is
required.
If you want to give the map a try to look for
rare Pokemon, now’s the time to do it. There’s always the chance that Niantic
will block this kind of hack in a future update.Source:bgr.com
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