Pokemon Go Stops and Gym with Ingress Map

How to find ‘Pokémon Go’ Poké Stop Map, Stops & Gyms  in your area using Ingress Map

If you’re looking for a directory of Poké Stops, there are two options right now  according to heavy.com

The Ingress map provides players with locations that Poke Stops will generally be found. (Ingress)

It’s difficult to get much enjoyment out of Pokémon Go without frequently visiting Poké Stops. These are the real-life locations that players are asked to journey to in order to receive items, such as Poké Balls, Lure Modules, and more. Traditionally, tourist attractions like museums and shopping malls will translate into Poké Stops, but the game doesn’t provide you an overview of all of them. Luckily, gamers have stepped in to fill that void.

The first is to make use of Ingress, a game developed by the same company that made Pokémon Go. It operates under a similar premise of having players visit real-life locations, and Niantic seems to have used this map as the basis for the Pokémon Go map. Ingress’ version of Poké Stops are called portals, and so if you find a portal on the game’s map, there is a decent (though not 100-percent) chance that this will translate into a Poké Stop. It’s not totally 1:1, but the map will at least give you some sort of guidance so you are not wandering around your entire state aimlessly.

Here’s what you need to do to access the Ingress map. You will need a Gmail account in order to continue.

1. Download the Ingress app on your smartphone. It’s available in the App Store on iOS and on Google Play for Android users.
2. Open the app and hit the “Sign In” button.
3. Log in with your Gmail account. After this step, you no longer need to use the app.
4. Visit the official Ingress map online.
5. Find your area on the map.
6. Look for the circles (of any color). These will roughly translate into Poké Stops.

The Ingress website is rather slow, so you’ll have to be a bit patient with it. Once you’ve zoomed in to your location, you’ll notice a bunch of circles that are either green, blue, or grey. You can ignore the colors; that just represents what team has claimed the portal, similar to how Pokemon Go teams claim gyms. All you need to pay attention to is the portals themselves. For now, until there’s a more complete and official Pokémon Go map available, heading to an area where a good amount of Ingress portals are located is a solid plan. Not every single portal equals a Pokémon Go Stop, but a decent enough chunk of them do.

Your second option is to check out this map that fans of the game have been slowly assembling on the Pokémon Go Subreddit. This one is even more incomplete, as it is gradually being developed by players, and the game simply hasn’t been out for long enough to fill up the whole thing. But if you’re in a fairly populated area, it may be of some help to you.






Sources:  Heavy.com, Google Images, Ingress