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Nothing near me, but I found several Pokemon around the Google campus in Mountain View.

Did they statically author these with set GPS coordinates instead of dynamically generating them around you?

I think they're all static or randomly assigned to the same spots. I see some around the Googleplex, Manhattan, Tokyo, and Paris. But nothing near me in Atlanta.

I think they're hard-coded to appear in places that are the real-life locations of Pokemon games, and they tossed in the Googleplex for fun.

For instance, the latest Pokemon iteration is quite obviously based on France [1], so that's why Google put creatures there.

[1]: A map of the Pokemon X / Y world: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/194c63lohgnayjpg/original.jp...

I hardly found any in Paris, myself. A bunch near the Google offices in Mountain View and Roppongi - maybe it's using past visited location data?

I found one in the football stadium of University of Wisconsin, but none in my area (a similarly-sized city).

That doesn't really seem to be the way they are spread out. There's some in major cities like Seattle and Portland. Then there's some at recognizable landmarks. Tokyo Tower, CERN, Area 51, Roswell etc.

I caught about 25 Pokemon in Sydney though!

Definitely hard-coded. But I have a feeling they got Google employees to choose places on the maps by telling them to choose places they like or something like that (without mentioning what project this is for).

The reason I think so, is because some places seem to be residential, like they're places you would live at.

Check Georgia Tech

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