Pokévision and Esri Speed Pokémon Go Hunting

ArcGIS Services Enhance Gameplay in Summer’s Hottest Hit


REDLANDS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#ArcGISEsri,
the world’s leading developer of GIS software, announced today that Pokévision,
a third-party app for the viral mobile game Pokémon Go, uses Esri’s
award-winning location-based data and mapping platform ArcGIS to help
players of the game find Pokémon around them.

A web map powered by ArcGIS services, Pokévision shows all Pokémon near
user-requested locations. When visitors type an address or drop a pin on
the map, Pokémon are displayed in real time. Pokévision helps Pokémon Go
players hunt more strategically by displaying location changes and time
spent in each place; the length of time in a given location depends on
the rarity of the character.

“When we created Pokévision, we chose Esri
ArcGIS
almost immediately because it was the only option that was
able to scale at the rate we were growing,” said the Pokévision founder
Y. Liu. “Using Esri alleviated many of the concerns we had with scaling,
and helped us to quickly and seamlessly keep pace with our growing user
base.”

Pokévision had 20 million unique users in the first five days and is
growing. Its peak usage exceeded 320,000 visitors with map requests
reaching into the tens of millions.

Pokévision developers chose Esri for its open-source, mobile-friendly
interactive mapping capabilities. The developers first built the locator
for a few friends, but the tool was so popular it quickly went viral.
Within hours of creation, Esri experienced double the normal hit rates,
and use of interactive maps used to display Pokémon rose by more than
30%.

“The ArcGIS Online platform is designed to scale in high-performance,
high-growth environments,” said Paul Ross, product manager for ArcGIS
Online at Esri. “Even large data sets at high volume can be handled in
real or near real time, as happened with the Pokévision locator.”

Developers can bring the Pokévision location to their apps using ArcGIS
regardless of their experience in creating geospatial applications. Web,
mobile, and desktop apps can incorporate the same mapping,
visualization, and analysis that hundreds of thousands of organizations
around the world rely on every day.

Learn more at go.esri.com/pr-developersarcgis

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to
think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS technology, Esri
software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including
each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national
governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more
than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more
than one million desktops and thousands of web and enterprise servers,
provide the backbone for the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. Esri
is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for
desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at esri.com/news.

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