Pokemon show in command line but not on map

[JefVH]

When I watch the papertrail logs, it states:

Within one step of LatLng: LOCATION (298m NE from you): (133) Eevee (41) Zubat

This is the same result as I get in the Pokemon Go app.

But it doesn't shop up on the map.

Any ideas why?

[houseofcat]

It's my understanding of how the treesimulation was written, that it can you only give you a general location. One step = one pokestep. I can't speak on behalf of emeth, but as a user, you can walk to that location, 298m NE, and hit refresh on your mobile browser, and it should then be visible and populate for you on your map.

[emeth-]

@JefVH Good eye!

So what we know is this. The api returns both visible and invisible pokemon. You can see that in the code here: https://github.com/emeth-/pokelocater/blob/master/api/pokelocator_api.py#L442-L473

Both get printed to the logs, but I only capture the visible ones to print them on the map.

Invisible ones will not show up when you walk over a location, and people are (to my knowledge) trying to figure out how to interact with them. I think I remember seeing a pokemongodev thread that suggested they were there in an attempt to catch cheaters, and another thread that said they were legit pokemon that would appear when you used a lure, but you couldn't see them until then.