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istornz / iPokeGo

A native iOS client to map the Pokemon around you!
https://github.com/RocketMap/RocketMap
MIT License
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Spawn point coloring and times #314

Open TheNewDarkOne opened 7 years ago

TheNewDarkOne commented 7 years ago

Current versions of Pokemon Go Map have more advanced spawn point dots that show color based on times. green active, gray not active, red active but expiring soon, etc..

In near future actual scanning is going to be broken for an untold amount of time, when that happens the only point to run a server will be to make heat maps or spawn timers using all the spawn data we've collected these past weeks. When that happens the purpose of this app might shift from showing what pokemon are up to what spawn points are active and where.

So features like "color code spawn points" and filters such as "only show active spawn points" or "active and ones soon to be active" etc.

Could go a step further and have it function in offline mode if a spawns file is in the apps documents folder as well. I believe it currently caches spawns anyways since I know when I'm not running server it still shows dots but in offline mode it wouldn't keep attempting to reach server.

TheNewDarkOne commented 7 years ago

Also spawn point only mode should show timers for expire as well. :)

TheNewDarkOne commented 7 years ago

The time has come, scanners are going to go dark VERY soon, they are locking out the working apis now. So priority on this should go up!

screen shot 2016-09-26 at 1 46 27 am This is my server running in non scan mode with spawn point map. with the dots as explained showing what's up, what's up soon, what's expiring soon etc. Now you expand this apps front end to read this data too and support showing spawn points like THIS, when map isn't scanning. You have something still quite useful. Add in options like "show time remaining" and "hide inactive" and you literally have an atlas of all the up pokemon and where and how long and you can just use this app to walk around to where you should be and when (even if you don't know the WHAT).