{"id":4485,"date":"2015-03-31T19:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2015-04-01T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T08:27:22","slug":"pacman-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2015\/pacman-on-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man on Google Maps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trafalgarsquarepacman.png\" alt=\"trafalgarsquarepacman\" width=\"771\" height=\"818\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trafalgarsquarepacman.png 771w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/trafalgarsquarepacman-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, we thought <a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2015\/google-maps-for-mobile\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a> on Google Maps for Mobile was the last time we&#8217;d be mentioning Google Maps for a little while, but then this happened. Google has managed to turn the entire world, including much of London, into a Pac-Man game. Or rather, lots of Pac-Man games. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\">Google Maps<\/a> right now, zoom into an area of interest (which needs to have a decent number of streets or tracks), and click the little Pac-Man box on the bottom left. Your current view gets turned into a Pac-Man game! You even get the classic sounds if you then click the speaker icon on the top left. Now you can go play Pac-Man based on the street layout of your childhood neighbourhood, your university campus, the centre of the last city you visited on holiday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If on mobile, the choices are more limited &#8211; you&#8217;ll need to zoom to the centre of a number of major cities rather than having free reign over most of the world. There are some clues in this <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/maps\/answer\/6178227?hl=en\">help page<\/a>, which also reveals that a Google red pin parker, and &#8220;Peg Man&#8221;, the Street View icon, are the top two &#8220;cherry&#8221; bonus objects that you might find.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are, this &#8220;April Fools&#8221; gift is only going to be around until the end of April 1, so <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\">get playing<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><i>Maps &copy; Google and presumably Namco? Above: Trafalgar Square. Below: The Inner Circle of Regent&#8217;s Park. Wakawakwakawakwawaka!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/googlepacman_regentspark.png\" alt=\"googlepacman_regentspark\" width=\"1686\" height=\"1097\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/googlepacman_regentspark.png 1686w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/googlepacman_regentspark-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/googlepacman_regentspark-1024x666.png 1024w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/googlepacman_regentspark-207x136.png 207w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/googlepacman_regentspark-260x170.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1686px) 100vw, 1686px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we thought yesterday&#8217;s post on Google Maps for Mobile was the last time we&#8217;d be mentioning Google Maps for a little while, but then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[706,707,66,708,69,71,709,705],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","category-events","tag-april-fools","tag-easter-egg","tag-game","tag-gaming","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-pac-man","tag-pacman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}