The Google April Fool's joke this year has us hunting for Pokémon on Google maps. Are the pokemon randomly distributed for each player, or a static list?
It seems there are a few preset ones, like the ones around the Google HQ.
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Lets test it. Samaurott is at Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia for me. Nearby (east) there's a Tyranitar. How about you? – Robotnik Apr 01 '14 at 05:09
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I see both of those, but much closer (west) is an inkay, and more west is charmander – Hooked Apr 01 '14 at 05:14
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Yep got those as well. I'd say they're in set positions then – Robotnik Apr 01 '14 at 07:31
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(Almost) all Pokémon are in set locations. Note that most Pokémon appear in several places so you don't need to go to each and every place and find all of them in each place.
There are actually online lists of where to find each of them, which would obviously not work if they were in different places.
Many of the locations are also chosen with something in mind. For example, Fire-types are common around volcanoes, Flying-types like Airports, Ice-types are generally on tall mountains like Mt. Everest, Snorlax are located in Vatican City (whatever that's supposed to mean) or on roads and Pidgey (dubbed "Bird Jesus" in the popular Twitch plays Pokémon) can be found in Jerusalem.
The locations are also mostly well-known and popular places for tourists. Your starting point is one of the "PokéLabs" closest to your actual position (Europe gets CERN, USA gets the Google HQ, Japan, possibly all of Asia, gets the Tokyo Pokémon Center, and so on).
In the spirit of the real games, there is a secret 151st Pokémon (Mew), which has no set location (credit to @Kareen for pointing this out). According to different reports, it only appears after having caught all 150 other Pokémon. It's location seems to be drawn randomly from a pool of possible locations including the Bermuda triangle and the Amazon river.
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Sorry, I confused the nicknames there. Bird jesus is Pidgeot. There's no Zapdos. – scenia Apr 01 '14 at 21:52
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1The first 150 Pokémon are all in set locations, but the 151st Pokémon isn't. – Kareen Apr 02 '14 at 00:02
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@scenia Still, I don't have Pidgeot on my PokeDex either. I do have Pidgey there, but then again, Pidgey is one of the most common Pokemon I found. I must have caught about a dozen Pidgeys – Jerry Apr 02 '14 at 04:54
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@jerry There is no Pidgeot in this Pokédex... Maybe Scenia meant Pidgey? – Kareen Apr 02 '14 at 06:19
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@0xFFF1 Not necessarily Nintendo, but Google seems to. It would make sense, I mean, we're talking about "Bird Jesus" located in Jerusalem... @ the others: It was Pidgey, you're right. I actually only heard from a friend at first, but have now confirmed the exact species. It's still Bird Jesus :P – scenia Apr 02 '14 at 07:13