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Hi all,
I've been using this method successfully for the last few days. Here is the app I've been using. I don't have an iOS recommendation yet, please suggest one if you find one.
The process is easy:
Make a 200m radius circle when the Pokemon first appears.
Make another 200m radius circle when the Pokemon disappears.
Go to either point where the circles intersect to find your guy.
This works really well on a bike because you can cover a lot of distance. If you are walking, this is still helpful because the Pokemon will appear somewhere on the edge of the first circle, which helps you narrow down where to look.
For all you android users some sexy redditor made an very minimal app for just this.
/u/RamblinWredneck was the sexy person mentioned.
I didn't watch the video that guy linked, but if you're android, I highly recommend this app
It's not fancy (or even very well done), but it was basically programmed by an PoGo player turned amateur programmer. It automatically draws the distance circles for you. If you find two points where snorlax disappears off the list, you basically know exactly where it is
Not that I don't totally miss the trackers, but there are alternatives out there. I've used this to find a couple things in the past few days, but did miss out on a machamp by about 30 seconds because it took too long. Even though it is far from perfect, I did like the challenge. I'd be happy with no exact location map if they gave us a way to find pokemon without it being basically pure luck.
Actually, the one at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagdesigns.trackertool simply draws a 200m green circle then a 70m red circle immediately over it... works well enough, something like that might help and be easier than an odd shape.
edit: actually, i just saw you had it on github, after work tonight, i'll fork it and add it for you and send a pull request. I may even experment with adding my collection of spawn point data to it as well... that should really help narrow things down : )
I posted this on a thread about the similar app I use, but my tips may also be relevant here:
I found that with my neighborhood's layout and my walking speed, it is often hard to do the appearance/ disappearance/ intersection method and actually walk fast enough to the desired location(s) before despawn.
Instead, I figured out an "appearance intersection" method that requires less walking for me. How it works:
- You see the Pokemon on the sightings but not spawning. Mark the map.
- Walk along far enough to be outside the orange circle, with the Pokemon still in sightings and not disappearing but not spawning. Mark the map.
- Repeat a couple times and look at the map: The Pokemon must be somewhere within the area where all the green parts are overlaid, but it cannot be in any part of that area where there is orange (because if it were in the orange, it would have already spawned for you).
- Make an educated guess of where best to go that is very green but not orange.
It works best of course when you are looking for something uncommon because multiples in range can mess this up. I found a charmander this way in the last orange zone that I marked in the pic: http://imgur.com/a/04qW3
The Android tool is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagdesigns.trackertool
Using this method, the only time I haven't been able to successfully track my uncommon quarry so far was when my final "educated guess" was to go inside the neighborhood liquor store- too embarrassed!
The first guide I saw took quite a bit of time to track. But the second one I saw is actually quite fast...
The range is 200m. You basically only have to find two spots on the 200m circle (when it disappears off your sightings). Draw a 200m circle from each of those spots. The pokemon is where the circles intersect (I know there will be 2 intersections, but it should be fairly obvious which one is correct).
If you're not good at estimating scale, and you're on android, this tool is awesome. It draws the circles for you. I've used it to catch 5/5 pokemon that I attempted to track (I have only encountered 5 pokemon that I want that bad haha).
If you are not on android, then you must add on a few more steps to track:
After finding those first two points on the 200m range circle, draw a line from one to the other (line AB).
turn 90 degrees and walk with the pokemon on your sightings list until it disappears a third time (point C).
line AC is the hypotenuse of a right triangle, and the pokemon is on the midpoint of AC.
And the reality is that you don't have to really walk the full length of the second line (BC). You will basically get an idea of where the pokemon will be after walking and estimating a bit.
I made an app for that (Android). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagdesigns.trackertool
Overlapping circles = Pokémon spawn.
Will post later with detailed description.
As you're walking around, you can try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagdesigns.trackertool
Example- http://m.imgur.com/UIKJaHz?r
here is the one I use: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagdesigns.trackertool
now we just need to add the collected spawnpoint data to these and we should be good for a while
It works fine for me, I regularly track things from the sightings list.
You triangulate the position of a pokemon on your sightings list by noting where and when it appears or drops off the sightings list, you can use the T-method or venn diagram method. There are web based and phone apps that can help you with this.
I sometimes combine this with opening up Ingress and looking at where the XM spawns (clumps of white dots) are, as these tend to correlate with Pokemon spawn points.
I will run or bike if I'm trying to find something rare, as with ~15mins to narrow down the location, you need to move fast, average walking pace would probably lead to disappointment.
Trainer Triangulator Tool
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagdesigns.trackertool
Trainer Triangulator Tool
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagdesigns.trackertool
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Here's the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bagdesigns.trackertool