Can Pokemon Go Stop Lying About Nearby Pokemon Please?

thegamer.com:

Every day when I go on my stupid walk for my stupid mental health, I play Pokemon Go. For 90 minutes I walk haphazardly around my city, bouncing from gym to gym and spinning PokeStops along the way. Occasionally, while looking for upcoming raids, I’ll spot a silhouette on the Nearby Menu of a Pokemon I haven’t yet captured - a most coveted opportunity for someone who has been playing Go for as long as I have. Invariably, the Pokemon in question will be three and a half miles away in a part of town I’ve never even been to. The Nearby Menu is a misnomer. It should be called the Pokemon Within Driving Distance Menu, because you’re certainly not walking that far.

The Pokemon that appear on this list spawn exclusively near PokeStops, so at first I thought the problem is with the poor density of stops in my city. I only have about ten stops within what could be considered walking distance, so I can understand to a certain degree if I’d need to walk more than a mile to catch a Pokemon I’m tracking - but that’s not how it works. The system will show you Pokemon well outside of a reasonable walking distance even if you’re surrounded by stops.

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Here’s the most related examples I can come up with. Last night I was enjoying a Blue Milk in Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland, hopefully some of you have been there. I spotted the silhouette of an Emolga on my list and figured this was the perfect time to finally track down the surprisingly elusive Sky Squirrel Pokemon. Galaxy’s Edge is in the very back corner of the park, but there are PokeStops approximately every ten steps in Disneyland, so I couldn’t imagine it would be very far.

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