"We need a "what biome are you in right now?" chart."

#PokemonGO: Our understanding of biomes is still poor and developing slowly. But I don't think we need to wait for SR data to get analyzed to make a big improvement in hunting for specific mons. We just need to refocus the grassroots research direction.The question we should be trying to answer is: within a single biome, but regardless of the biome name, what are all the possible sets of pokemon spawns?Our goal should be to classify groups of spawns by biome. For example:• "biome A": psyduck, poliwag, magikarp, staryu, slowpoke, dratini.• "biome B": pidgey, pidgeotto, rattata, raticate, weedle, drowzee, hypno, spearow, caterpie.It's obvious in this case that, if you're in biome B, you're never going to find a dratini. But maybe there's• "biome C": pidgey, pidgeotto, rattata, raticate, weedle, drowzee, hypno, ghastly, paras, lickitung.But suppose you still need to find a lickitung and you're hunting in a new, mono-biome area filled with pidgeys, rattatas, and weedles. In this case it would be really useful to know whether you were in biome B or C. If a caterpie spawns next, you can leave this area with good conscience. Or if a paras spawns next, you know that if you stick around it's at least possible you'll find a pokemon you don't have.This kind of "what biome are you in right now?" table or flow chart would be crazy useful.So what do we do? Most of us probably have a go-to single-biome spot -- your neighborhood, workplace, etc. What are all the pokemon you've every caught in that biome? That group of mons is a data point.So IDK, post your go-to hunting spots' sets of pokemon here?Misc thoughts:• We might learn that some rare mons can come and go between groups, but we could at least settle on the cores of the groups. We start with systematic knowledge of the groups, and then we look at how they're classified by OSM, etc.• Haters: "this is just what SR is doing" -- yeah maybe. But I'm a little worried that people are too busy logging their dragonites and grimers to remember to also log their pidgeys. Even if people log a quarter of their pidgeys it will still make the analyzers jobs hard to come up with correct estimate of how many tons of pidgeys there actually (which is an important and interesting number).• With enough data, we could even confidently explain outliers (e.g. someone reports a weird combo of biomes A and B-->more likely they overlap two biomes, than they found an entirely new one).(edits: formatting)(edit2: I'm having doubts about what to actually do about this. What I do know, at least, is that a goal of SR research should be such a chart.) via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2d0T1VR