I never could tell just what kind of biome the playground near my area has. There are 6 spawns, and they bring up the most random stuff ever, but mostly stuff like pidgey, hoothoot, rattata, natu, skitty, sentret, zigzagoon. Sometimes they spawn machop, gastly, lunatone, skiploom, aron, eevee, zubat, weedle, caterpie, voltorb, abra, drowzee, etc.
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Local biomes after the weather update
How many spots can you identify in your area which have a consistent relation with a map feature?
I used to be able to tell apart my typical village set of Pokémon from the ones that spawn on paths in the forest (the latter used to have more grass types and some others). I also saw coastal areas, airports and hotel resorts offer unusual species.
But since there is weather in the game the types around my village seem to be identical. I can still find some spots related to water features, and perhaps a few locations where more evolved or rarer ones within a weather-boosted type may appear (it looks like local hill tops), but that is about it.
Of course in a city almost each park has nests circulating every two weeks, but as a village dweller I would be lucky to find just one nest.
Over the last month I have added many paths and land uses in Open StreetMap. I hope Niantic ingests the data at least every few months and the spawns accordingly... current map is still from mid December.
Is there any land use or other features that you have linked to type spawns regardless of weather status?
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How does farmland distinguish itself from residential areas? I added a lot of farmland, meadows, scrubland, paths and small streams and I am curious if I will see differences. But my forest path are taken over by lots of Weather spawns.
I did notice that a stream without contours (a line) does not do much if anything for spawns, unless it is crossed by a bridge. A stream or river with contours can be very effective indeed.
