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I had a friend that ran some of that software. The trick was to just make a bunch of accounts and just fake them walking all across the map to gather the locati

I had a friend that ran some of that software. The trick was to just make a bunch of accounts and just fake them walking all across the map to gather the locations. Basically crowd sourcing it, but with fake people. The number of fake accounts was a function of how large of an area you wanted to cover and how often you wanted it to update.

alexeldeib 6y ago
I remember some really good public sites, but the quality cycled up and down and the Pokemon devs fought back a bit. I used some tool that basically was what OP described, but let me easily self-host a server. At the time I think there was some hack where the server component could fake location, so you'd just send it off to walk a geofenced area and could browse on mobile remotely while playing the game. Ran it off my laptop, then a DO droplet. Good times.