The map is called Pokévision and it uses publicly available data from Niantic Labs, the company that created the game along with Nintendo and the separate Pokémon company, to display where the creatures are at a given moment and how much longer they'll be there.
To search for the augmented reality critters using the map, go to the Pokévision website. There are two ways to scan the map. You can either click on it to drop a location marker and then press "scan" to show the Pokémon nearby. Or you can enter the location where you want to hunt into the search bar, and navigate around the map to see which Pokémon are hiding where.The Pokémon are displayed on the map with a timer to show how much longer they will be in that location for. Once the timer reaches zero it is likely that the monster will have disappeared.
"Rarer Pokémons have a shorter appearance time so they might despawn. Make sure to be quick and keep an eye on timers," the makers of Pokevision warn.
The map doesn't show Pokémon that spawn because of a lure or incense, as only individual users can see those. And players can't, unfortunately, search by Pokémon type.
Unlike other maps, such as Pokémapper, Pokévision uses the official app's API to scan for Pokémon. This means it can only scan once every 30 seconds and it doesn't work whenever Pokémon Go's servers are down. The normal scan time is five to 15 seconds, according to Pokévision's makers.
John Hanke, the chief executive of Niantic, told Comic Con that the company is "on the lookout" for someone that can upgrade the servers, which regularly stop the game from working for a number of reasons, including high volumes of users, DDoS attacks and when the game is released in a new country.
Other tools designed to help Pokémon players include crowd-sourced map Poke Radar, key hotspot tracker Find.Catch.Share and advice app for novices Go Helper.
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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