Are all the Pokémon in the same place for all players?

The Google April Fool's joke this year has us hunting for Pokémon on Google maps. Are the pokemon randomly distributed for each player, or a static list?

It seems there are a few preset ones, like the ones around the Google HQ.

Solution 1:

(Almost) all Pokémon are in set locations. Note that most Pokémon appear in several places so you don't need to go to each and every place and find all of them in each place.
There are actually online lists of where to find each of them, which would obviously not work if they were in different places.

Many of the locations are also chosen with something in mind. For example, Fire-types are common around volcanoes, Flying-types like Airports, Ice-types are generally on tall mountains like Mt. Everest, Snorlax are located in Vatican City (whatever that's supposed to mean) or on roads and Pidgey (dubbed "Bird Jesus" in the popular Twitch plays Pokémon) can be found in Jerusalem.

The locations are also mostly well-known and popular places for tourists. Your starting point is one of the "PokéLabs" closest to your actual position (Europe gets CERN, USA gets the Google HQ, Japan, possibly all of Asia, gets the Tokyo Pokémon Center, and so on).

In the spirit of the real games, there is a secret 151st Pokémon (Mew), which has no set location (credit to @Kareen for pointing this out). According to different reports, it only appears after having caught all 150 other Pokémon. It's location seems to be drawn randomly from a pool of possible locations including the Bermuda triangle and the Amazon river.