Pokévision

I've been thinking of using it myself. I personally don't go to populated areas that have pokestops/gyms. It's always in my area (which has two gyms and two pokestops in my community. One is a church, the other our community public park).

And I'm desperate to find certain pokemon honestly mostly Eevees, (which says that they are local in residential areas, which is where I am at) and geodudes. It's a hit and miss for me right now because of the step glitch. :/ But I woudn't mind trying it out. It's not cheating to me. It's just a form with pokemon spawns. It's the same as whipping out a pokedex in game, to find a pokemon you sighted?
 
Gotta say the downtime on this is starting to get a bit irritating! I've started using PokéVision more often now as the three-step glitch is just making it far too difficult to fairly track down new Pokémon but I can't say it's the most useful thing either in itself - not sure if the maps of my area are just a bit wonky or something but the Pokémon listed are very rarely actually in the spots they say, but instead usually turn up 2 or 3 minutes walk away which is often far enough to let it despawn. Do you guys get this problem too?
 
for it to work well you need lots of other people in your area using it at the same time but is definately really useful, it helps you find where rare spawning locations are. Only problem is it shows a very small area around where you scan so you need lots of people scanning different spots so its easy to miss things.
For me its not cheating, firstly you still have to go out and actually go the location where the pokemon is. Secondly even if it shows a pokemon in your nearby that doesnt mean you will easily find it on pokevision and finally it needs teamwork to use effectively so to me thats in the spirit of the game ;)
 
I find the Site super useful, I have found some Pokémon in locations that I would of never of walked up and those times of day etc.

It doesn't show Pokémon on Lure Modules however ~
 
I'm using pokevision as a time saver :) if i see a pokemon on the screen, im starting a game. It works.
 
Alright, I've come back to eat some humble pie.

I should have looked into this a bit more before forming an opinion. Having done a bit more research now, I'm somewhat coming around in the other direction.

At the very least, I wouldn't go so far as to call it cheating.

Some of you made some good points that I spent time looking into. Foremost, I feel stupid that I didn't even realize HOW BROKEN the three step radar is right now. It's not even showing the correct Pokemon in your general area half the time for most people. So not only can you not triangulate a Pokemon's position, you really can't even rely on it for what's nearby. =(

I do feel like it takes away from the exploration element of the game. I'm hesitant to use it on an outing because, well, I just want to go out and explore and have fun and talk more with the people around me who are playing rather than rely on an app for information.

But that's just me.

I won't call it (or you) a cheater. Use it to make the game more enjoyable for you, however that is. I may even use it while at home sometimes now that I know I can't even rely on my radar to tell me what's nearby so I can go check my nearby spawn points.
 
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