"To put things into perspective: 200m is approx. 3.6cm from the base of your character fully zoomed out on an Iphone 5 screen"

#PokemonGO: Urban player here! With the new tracker having a range of 200m (what seems to be the consensus of what I've read), I've been thinking of a way to put into perspective the area a pokemon may be in when when they come up in the nearby list. Note I'm doing this because there aren't any pokestops around me so I wanted to make the most of the sightings feature. MethodI opened Google maps and measured 200m in a straight line from where my character was standing in PoGo (point A) to a place I would be able measure from (point B), in this case the space between a building and road: Figure 1.I then zoomed fully out on PoGo and put Point B to the top of the screen and measured the distance from A to B with a ruler: Figure 2Point A is the shoes of the character on screen, to be exact. ResultI've only been able to try this on an Iphone 5 and the result was that 3.5-3.6cm is the 200m mark from your avatar's shoes. This is about 2.1cm down from the top of the screen.Anything above point B is beyond the tracker scan radius Why is this useful?This can be useful as you can now have a rough idea of where the pokemon might be on the map as the 3.5-3.6cm distance stays the same when you spin the map to look around.There may be other uses for this information, such as if you see a pokemon appear on your tracker, it is likely to be on the leading edge of the scan circumference, so you just zoom out and position the map ahead of you and you can visualise where the leading edge of the scan circle may be which will give you a better idea of where the pokemon is. Because of the perspective of the game, you can't see 200m down, left or right from your avatar, so on an iphone 5 pretty much all of the bottom 6.7cm of your screen is within the scan area. Figure 3 approximately shows how much of the screen is within the tracker scan range using the method above. Hopefully this will be useful to you guys in one way or another! As you can see it's ab bit of a rough method but it seems to have worked. It would be cool as well to see if this is different on different phones with different sized screens. Other phones:Iphone 6 Plus: 3.5-3.6cm -the same as the Iphone 5 (credit to /u/cubalibresNcigars). Probably means Iphone 6 Plus people can see more map than on an iphone 5 as their map is the same scale but on a bigger screen. Edit text fixesEdit 2 sorry for the discrepancy between 3.6cm and 3.5cm, I couldn't decide which one was closer.Edit 3: FYI 3.5cm is about 1.38inches :) also added "other phones" section via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2aSTAQb