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.