Google Maps Pokémon Challenge

Google has lastly added the place of wild Pokémon to Google Maps. Google Maps on Android as well as iOS is directly populated amongst 150 Pokémon.

What's to a greater extent than you lot tin locomote Google Maps to capture the Pokémon as well as instruct inward the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge. The 150 Pokémon are located throughout the world, thence you lot volition stimulate got to live a Pokémon Master to capture them all. If you lot ask a trivial assistance inward getting started inward your search as well as thence stimulate got a expect roughly the Googleplex inward California.


If you lot discovery a Pokémon spell browsing Google Maps on your telephone merely tap the brute as well as you lot tin grab it. The Pokémon is as well as thence added to your Pokedex (that's your ain personal Pokémon catalog). Every fourth dimension you lot capture a Pokémon you lot stimulate got a pace forrard inward your challenge to instruct the ultimate Pokémon Master.

Live Streaming Street Thought On Google Maps

Live streaming Street View is coming shortly to Google Maps. The novel imagery volition hold out similar to the introduce Street View only, instead of using nevertheless images, it volition involve real-time streaming images. Once the novel streaming Street View goes alive yous volition hold out able to click on Google Maps too actual run across what is happening at a place alive too inwards real-time.

Here's a footling background on this story:

Yesterday I was contacted yesteryear a developer inwards Switzerland. While poking unopen to inwards the javascript for Street View he spotted a reference to 'streaming_streetview'. The developer e-mailed me bespeak me if I had whatever thought what this mightiness hold out referring to.

In the code the reference to streaming Street View has a place attached to it but when yous opened upwardly the Street View inwards Google Maps it only displays the normal static Street View. However the reference to 'streaming_streetview' likewise has a panoID attached to it. I thence decided to piece of occupation the Google Maps API to create a Street View lawsuit too entered inwards the panoID.

The effect is an amazing real-time streaming Street View from the location. I've set this footling hack on-line too yous tin laissez passer on the sack run across Google's examination demo of streaming Street View inwards activeness for yourself - here.

Yesterday I likewise tried to become far impact alongside a few of the people I know inwards the Google Maps team, inwards lodge to endeavor to larn some to a greater extent than data on this. At showtime Google, every bit ever, were really tight lipped close this. However, in 1 lawsuit I told them I was going to issue tidings of this anyway, I did larn by to larn a tilt out of Google.

Here's what Mike Marks, of the Google Maps Development Team, told me,

"We are working on introducing streaming Street View on Google Maps. However nosotros are presently a long agency from going alive alongside this. At the minute nosotros convey a number of logistical too privacy issues that nosotros demand to resolve earlier nosotros are create to add together streaming Street View to Google Maps.

I can't say yous much close the logistical problems because that volition laissez passer on away the photographic television set camera locations - too nosotros don't desire to laissez passer on that data out yet. The other issues nosotros convey are to create alongside people's privacy. We convey been working on updating our human face upwardly blurring technology too then that nosotros tin laissez passer on the sack shroud people's faces every bit they walk unopen to on camera. We convey come upwardly a long agency alongside that but nosotros nevertheless convey some piece of occupation to create earlier that technology is perfected. Rest assured nosotros volition non hold out releasing streaming Street View until nosotros are surely that nosotros tin laissez passer on the sack protect people's privacy when they seem alive on Google Maps"

So it appears nosotros convey a footling fourth dimension to aspect earlier alive streaming Street View is released on Google Maps. While yous aspect yous tin laissez passer on the sack banking concern fit out the footling cloak-and-dagger demo of the technology that Google are testing here. Currently the examination photographic television set camera is broadcasting inwards dark & white. Hopefully Google volition hold out switching to color cameras earlier they eventually create become alive alongside this on Google Maps.

Pokémon Challenge - Spoilers!

By forthwith you lot accept in all likelihood heard nigh the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge. Google has hidden 150 Pokémon characters on Google Maps. If you lot explore Google Maps on Android as well as iOS devices you lot tin commence your scream for to decease a Pokémon Master past times hunting downward all the 150 Pokémon characters hidden some the footing on Google Maps.

Unfortunately non everyone is cutting out to decease a Pokémon Master. Luckily the Reddit community rapidly crowd-sourced the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge as well as betwixt them constitute all 150 Pokémon characters hidden on Google Maps.

If you lot desire a piddling assistance inwards your scream for hence caput over to the Pokémon Apr Fools Wiki, which has published a listing of all 150 Pokémon, including links to all the locations on Google Maps. If you lot don't desire to cheat inwards your scream for hence you lot mightiness desire to outset instead past times searching some the national landmarks inwards unlike countries.

The Hand-Drawn Map Style

Here at MapBox Mania nosotros beloved around of the custom map styles that OpenStreetMap developers conduct maintain designed. So today nosotros desire to part 3 of our favorite custom map styles created amongst OpenStreetMap map tiles.


The Hand Drawn Map of Toulouse uses TileMill to customize the await of OpenStreetMap to practice a beautiful hand-drawn styled map. It is the lovingly created special on this map that assistance instruct far too hence special. From the post-it banking firm notation themed labels to the hand-sketched textures it is slow to genuinely fault this for a existent hand-drawn map.

The map's creator Karl Azémar has every bit good published an interesting post most how he created the hand-drawn agency (in French).


Space Station Earth is a gorgeous scientific discipline fiction themed map created amongst MapBox. The map changes urban meat names to infinite colonies, uses custom textures for route too edifice borders and uses over-sized markers for stores, parks, too other points of involvement to copy urban meat lights.


Stamen's Watercolor Map is rightly 1 of the most pop map styles. I've fifty-fifty seen this 1 popping upward inwards maps developed amongst the Google Maps API, swapping out the Google Map tiles for this beautiful OpenStreetMap. If yous similar the Watercolor Map agency yous should every bit good conduct maintain a await at Oregon State University's Crinkled Watercolor Map.

Finished Pokémon? Thence Endeavor Mobbles

If y'all produce got flora all 150 Pokémon inwards the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge as well as thence y'all are laid to produce got on the Mobbles challenge.

Mobbles is a fun game for Android as well as iOS devices. The game involves searching Google Maps for hidden creatures. When y'all respect the creatures y'all tin tap on them as well as capture them. If that sounds a footling similar the Google Maps Pokémon Challenge don't worry equally Mobbles includes quite a lot to a greater extent than game-play than Google's fun Pokémon Apr Fools jape.

After y'all capture your Mobbles y'all besides postulate to tending of the footling critters, past times feeding, cleaning as well as playing alongside them. You tin besides merchandise your Mobbles alongside other players. By trading Mobbles y'all tin produce upwards your ain unique collection of creatures. Just shout back that y'all postulate to tending for each as well as everyone of them.

Deforestation Leads To Slavery

Maps tin hold upward real powerful tools inwards information visualization. Especially when y'all desire to exhibit a correlation betwixt 2 unlike data-sets. This is truthful of this map of Forced Labor inwards Amazonia.

The visualization overlays information relating to the place of rescued slaves and deforestation inwards the Amazon on a map of Brazil. The correlation betwixt locations where those inwards forced project convey been rescued together with areas suffering from deforestation appears to hold upward real clear on the map.

The map real powerfully reinforces the human relationship betwixt the destruction of the pelting wood inwards Brazil together with social degradation from forced labor.

The Matrix On Street View

This ane sounds similar an Apr Fools joke merely I hope you lot it isn't.

Photographer Alexis Jemus has shot a discover of indoor Street Views of Montreal businesses every bit purpose of the Google Business Photos program. When he shot the Street View for the Montreal Ikea shop he decided non to hire models for the shoot merely instead cloned himself l times.

Don't believe me? Then banking concern agree out this incredible scene inwards Street View, inwards which l Alexis Jemuses look inwards ane incredible panoramic image.

Via: Google Street View World

Uk Air Pollution On Google Maps

The UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland is this calendar week experiencing tape levels of air pollution. This is partly beingness caused yesteryear sand from the Sahara only besides yesteryear the UK's appalling tape on traffic pollution.

The tape levels of air pollution has larn a big tidings story inwards the UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland media today. Which way that Defra (the Department for Environment too Rural Affairs) couldn't convey picked a to a greater extent than opportune fourth dimension for the launch of their novel 5 hateful solar daytime air pollution forecast map.

The Defra Air Pollution Forecast is a static oestrus map that displays air pollution forecasts for the side yesteryear side 5 days. However if you lot movement into an address or postcode into the map you lot tin persuasion a local Google Map for whatever expanse of the UK, which includes to a greater extent than detailed local forecasts. Defra’s air lineament forecasts are produced yesteryear the UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland Met Office.

Via: Mapperz

Mapping European Migrant Deaths

The Migrants Files has mapped over 23,000 migrants who convey died on their means to Europe since the twelvemonth 2000. Partially funded past times the European non-profit organization, Journalismfund.eu, the Migrant Files has been compiling information on the deaths of Europe’s would-be migrants from a break of dissimilar sources.

The map shows the locations of where migrants convey died either inwards their attempts to motion into Europe or while seeking refuge inwards Europe. The map highlights the dangers for African migrants off the coasts of Kingdom of Morocco too Tunisia too likewise a large break of deaths of migrants off the coast of Turkey.

Development Goals Discussed On Twitter

Global Pulse has released an impressive interactive presentation exploring how the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals are beingness discussed on social media.

In the twelvemonth 2000 the UN agreed to laid upwards 8 Millennium Development Goals. The 8 MDGs were meant to supply a framework from which to halve poverty but about the the world past times 2015. As that deadline approaches Global Pulse and the Millennium Campaign has released Unglobal Pulse, to explore how unlike countries convey been discussing topics related to these goals on Twitter.

This interactive visualization shows the 20 countries which convey proportionately tweeted the most almost each topic. The visualization includes a slap-up interactive globe. Select whatsoever of the topics inwards the globe sidebar too the globe spins to demo the 20 countries that convey tweeted the most almost the topic.


Unglobal Pulse too features a Google Map equally business office of the interactive visualization. The map provides a oestrus map stance of each of the MDG topics. If you lot lead a theme inwards the sidebar a oestrus map displays the intensity of the unwrap of Tweets made but about the theme inwards each province of the world. You tin too click on private countries to stance the unwrap of Tweets made inwards the province for each of the topics.

Zeit Online Drops Google Maps

Over the years High German paper Zeit has published some corking information visualizations using the Google Maps API. However  it has instantly followed the tendency fix past times many other digital publishers inwards moving away from Google Maps as well as towards using OpenStreetMap.

Zeit Online as well as Google Maps


IN 2011 Zeit Online used Google Maps to divulge the place information captured past times mobile phones. The map animated the movements of High German Green political party politician, Malte Spit on a Google Map, for a half dozen calendar month period. Verräterisches Handy was non entirely a corking map it also proved to live on i of the most effective articles inwards raising the awareness of mobile users to the place information captured past times their phones as well as past times the band companies.


In 2011, later the Japanese seismic sea wave as well as the resulting meltdown at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Zeit Online published a Google Map visualizing how many Americans alive nigh nuclear ability plants.

The American Nuclear Power Plants Map includes a distance slider tool that allows yous to visualize how many people alive within different distances of a nuclear ability plant. For example, the voluntary evacuation zone around the Fukushima ability found is eighteen miles. Using the Zeit-Online map nosotros uncovering that a full of 16,040,474 Americans alive inside eighteen miles of a nuclear plant.

In 2012 Zeit Online created a like map for its High German readers. The German Nuclear Power Plants Map shows how many people alive unopen to High German nuclear ability plants. This map also includes a distance slider tool that lets yous visualize how many Germans alive inside unlike distances of a nuclear ability plant.

Zeit Online as well as OpenStreetMap

Yesterday the MapBox Blog published a postal service on Zeit Online's switch to custom made OpenStreetMaps. The postal service is an interesting seek of the blueprint decisions Zeit Online has taken inwards their novel hold off interactive maps. These blueprint choices include the purpose of Zeit Online fonts for map labels as well as the lean purpose of map labels to brand infinite for information on information visualizations.


The MapBox postal service also includes links to a issue of examples of Zeit-Online's purpose of interactive maps. These include an interesting map showing how doctor’s offices are concentrated inwards affluent neighborhoods of High German cities, a map displaying the tracks of all hurricanes betwixt 2008 as well as 2013 as well as a map showing the UK's nuclear ability found structure plans.

The MapBox weblog postal service of class does non explicate the reasons behind Zeit Online's determination to drib the purpose of the Google Maps API for MapBox as well as OpenStreetMap. We tin hand the axe in all likelihood infer that the greater liberty inwards blueprint command offered past times OpenStreetMap contributed inwards some component to the newspaper's decision.

I've written before nearly how I yell back that Google has been really wearisome over the final ii years inwards developing the Google Maps API. I strongly believe that Google's recent concentration on Google Maps Engine as well as fail of the Google Maps API is causing map developers to switch to other mapping platforms.

Of class Google may non assist nearly this. Google Maps Engine generates income for Google as well as also agency that they cause got access to all the place information uploaded past times Google Maps Engine users.