But Almutawa thinks the map is good for "augmenting" the experience. There's an argument to be made that knowing exactly where pokémon are located takes away from the game (a friend of mine, who posted about the project on Facebook, wrote, "This kinda kills some fun of the game for me. "I feel like everyone needs to be on the same plane," Almutawa says. He'd like to see it opened up to more people so that programmers don't have an unfair advantage. I caught the Dratini my first try, so I was very proud of myself for that one."Īlmutawa says that he and other developers are now making the map more user friendly, creating an interface for installing and using the tool so that people don't have to mess with the command line. 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 opened the map and there was a Dratini that was three blocks down the road. "The very first time was working properly it was like 10PM," Almutawa says. We were able to confirm that the tool accurately maps locations - The Verge's Adi Robertson was able to catch a Meowth and Koffing by walking to locations on the map. With a bit of code, you can tell the map to filter by specific pokémon or pokéstops that include the item you want. If you get through that process, what you'll find is a Google Map that basically offers a bird's-eye view of every nearby pokémon, pokéstop, and gym. If you don’t know what the command line is, maybe hold off for now. There are step-by-step instructions if you want to use it, but be warned, you'll have to open up the command line. It's not hosted on a public website, nor is it an app you can easily install. Right now, the map isn't something everyone can easily access.
"There's been like 46 contributors, and this is over just two days," Almutawa tells The Verge. When he woke up, people had already begun swarming to it. He posted the project on GitHub and Reddit, then went to bed.
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In there, someone figured out how to pull raw data out of the game, including the locations of gyms, the items at individual pokéstops, and where pokémon are appearing.ĭeveloper Ahmed Almutawa began playing with that access on Saturday and within a few hours had plotted the data onto a map. The project emerged from a subreddit dedicated to developers playing with Pokémon Go. "Ever since I've made this, I've had a lot more fun." Fortunately, someone's come up with a solution - one that some may call cheating, but also makes finding pokémon insanely easy: it's a Google Map that displays the location of every pokémon around you. But a bug has made that really difficult over the past few days, with the game's Nearby feature seemingly breaking down. Half the fun of Pokémon Go is tracking down new creatures.
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