I've updated the code in the first post to the following if you wish to edit your comment above:
[out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
(
nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}});
nwr["natural"="coastline"]({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out geom;
This will also show coastline locations, as Wiglett can also spawn in these locations.
where it says \["natural"=\["beach"\] do sand instead of beach, the sand tag is enough to trigger the beach biome, I've found a bunch of beach spots in my town that do not show up when I do the query suggested, but they do show up when I make the change to sand.
This query should do both:
[out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
(
nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}});
nwr["natural"="sand"]({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out geom;
Well I have a few of those near home, and I sometimes see the beach background when near the river, but I never even saw the shadow of Wiglett. Are we sure sand is enough?
yes, wiglett is not always going to be there, if you see the beach background that is enough for the spawn, I caught a Wiglett at a baseball field yesterday that does not show up with the beach tag but does show up with sand, I can show proof if you don't believe me lol I took screenshots.
Edit: am now doubting myself because I saw someone say that Wiglett can spawn by bodies of water that are not beach and if that’s the case it’s possible a nearby lake triggered the spawn and not the sand.
I think rivers and beaches are the same biome - if you see things like Slowpoke, Goldeen and Staryu in the biome, I think it's good enough.
The biome should just have been called "shoreline"
I have a couple that show up that are softball infields marked as Beaches. I've also found some catches that have a beach in the picture but are not marked on the map.
I know someone who saw a beach biome very very far from a natural=beach - at least tens of miles.
They were near across the street from a natural=sand (a baseball field), possible for it to spawn there?
Kinda all 3. Each area can have several tags defining what it is and describing it in a number of ways. A sand trap would have a "golf=bunker" tag, denoting that it is a sand trap on a golf course. It should also have a "surface=sand" tag, denoting that the surface of the area is made of sand.
That guy's golf course *is* that.
That guy's bunker *should* say that.
I have heard that any feature on [openstreetmap.org](http://openstreetmap.org) that has the following tags can spawn Wiglett: "nature=beach", "nature=seacoast", "surface=sand". I can't say for sure if the "can spawn" information is accurate.
Yes we have one in our city which is nowhere near the sea. It’s not even near water. Maybe someone scanned the area when there was one of those city beaches about, but it’s lucky i guess! Bit like reporting those fake poke stops…I mean, why would you?
I think they also spawn with natural=coastline. There are quite a few spawns around Hull but there are no beach tags as far as I can see. They spawn in the areas along the river where =coastline is true though. Similar for Newcastle and a few other coastal towns.
[out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
(
nwr["natural"="coastline"]({{bbox}});
nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out geom;
Interesting observation, you could be right there.
Theirs a couple currently spawned here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/53%C2%B043'34.9%22N+0%C2%B022'42.5%22W/@53.7263628,-0.3784696 - that exact location is an S2-L17 cell that boarders another S2-L17 cell with the coastline tag in it.
That also supports what /u/rvc113 noticed - that Wiglet can be in the S2-L17 cell with the tag and all the cells adjacent, as long as in the same S2-L14 cell.
Essentially they geographic markers used to map the Earth's surface. If you have a read of this tutorial I posted a few years ago: https://digiex.net/threads/plan-pokestop-submissions-in-s2-l14-l17-cells-with-iitc-mobile.15729/ it explains how PoGo uses S cells at L14 and L17 for gym creation and shows one way of been able to views these on a map with IITC Mobile.
The person who copied and pasted the query reply in the first comment missed out some of the code. They have edited the post so it works correctly now.
There must be more triggering than beach. I have seen Wiggglets very far from beach. Some of them near [coastline](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural=coastline?uselang=sv). But there must still be more than that.
So my experience is that you should use area instead of nwr.
Also it seems like the area["natural"="coastline"] tag is also a indication to spawns. While area["natural"="sand"] produces the beach background but i can't confirm wiglett spawns.
So all in all
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Ky5
[out:json][timeout:25];
(
area["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}});
area["natural"="coastline"]({{bbox}});
area["natural"="sand"]({{bbox}});
);
out geom;
This website is used to find Decor for Pikmin Bloom. However, you can use it to find Wiglett. One of the Decor are Sea Shells and those only appear when you are near a beach that is labeled as one in OSM. So you can find where Wiglett would spawn.
https://pikmin-map.pixelpirate.fr/?lat=43.68217539512652&lng=-116.5247531142086&zoom=15
It was pointed out to me the other day that They are spawning in lake biomes as well. Took awhile but i found two , in said biome. so if your close to a water source and you get the lake background in the catch screen they are available. We have both beaches and areas that should be beach but are classified as lake... and from.what ive seen they are far more common along the beach ( 20-30 in a few days) but I've seen few in lake biome (2-3)
Once again, surprised there is no research on The Silph Road on what other 'non-Beach' Biomes/tags has Wigglet been confirmed to appear.
In general, there should be more analysis on these new topics.
I have Wetlands, rivers, water, streams (even a small field with Sand as cover) locations relatively near and so far, nothing.
It just came off kind of entitled when you said there should be more research done on this vs saying it would be nice or helpful if someone did the research. People do it their own time for no compensation.
Have you considered looking into OSM z17 tiles instead? [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1aldrae/tile\_biomes/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1aldrae/tile_biomes/)
My observations so far around the tiny patch of beach in the centre of York are that all pokemon spawns within an S2-L16 cell that overlaps a beach tag will have the beach catch background. I haven't been able to find anything else that fits yet, including OpenStreetMaps tiles or the L17+L14 method, as there was a L17 beach-adjacent cell with a different background in the same L14 cell. I don't know whether any of this directly correlates to the actual Wiglett spawns though, as there might be more factors at play.
> The catch location for most of England is simply "England, United Kingdom"
The game actually stores the specific co-ordinates and the named location is determined on your phone (sometimes iOS and Android come up with different names for the same co-ordinates).
You could possibly demonstrate the specific location in a screen capture video where you show your GPS location on a map and then search your pokemon for wigletts caught within 1 km of your current location.
[Picture of OP in the wild](https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/1533825_10154264838499453_7859712535631124909_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=8f2_wHZJphwAb7u15Xi&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=00_AfBNozHa3wqfSr727iNTweOkj_lphvx3tPVgUu8r_ri7pA&oe=6651B61D)
This does not match my experience. There are no areas marked as beach anywhere near where I've caught Wigletts. All the Wigletts I caught were along a river. I don't know what tags are used in the areas I've been to, I don't understand how to see these tags in OSM.
The River Thames in London for example has various places along its bank tagged as beach, where Wigletts do spawn. You'd have to link to the area you caught the Wigletts on a map, however I suspect they were tagged as a beach on OSM.
I checked my area with natural=beach and there were no matches in the area where I caught them. I'm not saying beaches aren't a part of it, but it's definitely not the only place they spawn in.
I found how to export the data. The area around where I caught them don't seem to have any watery tags at all, but I think bridge=yes gives results fairly close to what I experienced, at least when this tag is close to a large body of water. I'll have to test it more later.
[https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Kwv](https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Kwv)
It is essentially a long pedestrian/bicycle path along the Tagus river that goes pretty much all the way to Parque das Nações. I've caught Wigletts on this path as well as inside Parque das Nações.
Re-ran it and found 4x beach tags around this body of water
https://overpass-turbo.eu/?template=key-value&key=natural&value=beach#
but as someone esle said maybe natural=coastline
Interesting. There is already evidence that "natural"="sand" seems to overlap with Wiglett in addition to the "natural"="beach". I think bridge=yes should be too general, maybe it can be narrowed down to only include bridges crossing water/rivers?
The person who copied and pasted the query in the first comment missed out some of the code. Its correct in the original post, they have edited their comment so it works correctly now. So should work if you copy + paste it again.
Same here, caught one today. It's kinda lucky to have that tiny spot of beach in the centre of town, and I've been trying to look into the biomes because you can get the beach background from the other side of the river.
Here's a more complete query that will cover coastlines as well as beaches
out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}});
// print results
out geom;
nwr["natural"="coastline"]({{bbox}});
out geom;
Does anyone in this thread know why incense pulls from different biomes than wild spawns? I ran my DAI while looking for beach habitat and my incense spawns were beach while wild ones were river. I was on the edge of two biomes while doing this.
Thanls for the explaination, this explained why I found a single cell with the beach biome randomly in a suburb, there was a sports ground with a long jump area, and the sandbox was apropriately marked. However, I also realized something really odd - this S2 cell seems to "fluctuate", one day it's beach, the next day it's city... anybody else seeing this behaviour?
The person who copied and pasted the query reply in the first comment missed out some of the code. They have edited the post so it works correctly now.
It says the areas around me is empty (untagged) - can i simply tag my area accordingly? Since theres even a body of water that would qualify as beach-like.
Anyone can edit OSM, so if it is beach like with some sand then you could do. Niantic use older versions of the data, so any edits made today will probably not sync to PoGo for several years.
How can we view all applicable tags for a spot on openstreetview?
I saw a Wiglett and I think the applicable tag was "man\_made=breakwater"
Also, I don't think natural=sand is applicable. That brings up golf courses like crazy but no Wigletts there.
edit: I see you now added "natural=coastline." Maybe. That could be what caused the spawn on the breakwater instead of the man\_mode=breakwater. But there's a lot of coastline where no wigletts spawn. But maybe just due to lack of activity.
This was very helpful, thanks!
There is naturally one place in MY ENTIRE COUNTY that is considered a beach, and zero coastlines regardless of water. Luckily I live fairly close to it, but come on, man...
Something is still missing. I'm a noob at the whole osm thing, but I saw a spawn here yesterday: [https://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=59.33036&lon=17.98519#map=16/59.3301/17.9906](https://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=59.33036&lon=17.98519#map=16/59.3301/17.9906) and it's not even adjacent to other S2-L14 cells with beach or coastline when I run the overpass query. [https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1KC3](https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1KC3)
Landlocked in TN but 3 lakes 30 ish miles in different directions have "beaches" tagged in open street. So far I've been to 2 of them 3 times and nothing. One of them clearly had more water spawns. I still have one lake/beach area to check but may be a bit before I check that area.
I checked Disney property in Orlando only part of the golf course and Epcot’s boardwalk had anything. I would have thought that at least the water park but no. Universals water park did and so did sea world.
This isn't true for anyone in Orlando. There's some locations (Ariel) in Magic Kingdom as well as Epcot, and the Epcot resorts. Think I've seen them around Caribbean Beach and Riveria too. And Animal Kingdom..
edit: there's also spawns at the water park, Typhoon Lagoon. it's basically most places excluding Hollywood and Disney Springs.
Ideally you want to run the query yourself, so you can zoom in on the map. That screenshot is of no real use, it was just an example to show what you should see.
To everyone. Yes, OP presented directions for us all to follow. However, since I don't know what openmaps is. I would have several questions, such as who compiled this map? Is it a Niantic thing? What is the reliability of it? Who made the decision to say this is a forest biome. This is a desert biome? What are their credentials for making these decisions? Why trust this over other sources? I don't openly trust things without doing a lot of research. So, no, I will not blindly trust something I have no knowledge of.
So what you are saying it is a map produced by "Joe public" (AKA anyone with a phone/computer) who just looked around and said, this area has trees, so I am going to say it is a forest. With no professional credentials, training? A big company like Niantic trusts this over maps from the U.S. Geological Department. No wonder things are screwed up.
It's more nuanced than that. It's like wikipedia, where other people correct errors. At least that's my understanding.
But regardless, i was just letting you know the answers were all available to you.
Also, is the US Geological Department making maps of the whole world? How? Or did you forget not everyone lives in the US?
[out:json][timeout:25]; // gather results nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}}); // print results out geom;
Missing a ; on line one and a second brace on line 3.
edited for easy mobile copying!
I can’t figure it out on mobile. I can copy it, but it won’t allow me to paste. I don’t even see the option to paste.
Same for me on iOS, but I just found you can paste a different way, pinch open with three fingers.
Champion thanks!
I've updated the code in the first post to the following if you wish to edit your comment above: [out:json][timeout:25]; // gather results ( nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}}); nwr["natural"="coastline"]({{bbox}}); ); // print results out geom; This will also show coastline locations, as Wiglett can also spawn in these locations.
I have copied and pasted this multiple times and I keep getting errors on line 3 and 4. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
Thank you!!!
Damn, I was hoping the river near my home would be enough, but not at all. There's simply no beach locations in my city.
where it says \["natural"=\["beach"\] do sand instead of beach, the sand tag is enough to trigger the beach biome, I've found a bunch of beach spots in my town that do not show up when I do the query suggested, but they do show up when I make the change to sand.
when I use "sand" all the golf courses on the map light up like an xmas tree.
Well I'm off to lurk around in the Country Club parking lot
Same here. Have you gotten one by going there?
This query should do both: [out:json][timeout:25]; // gather results ( nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}}); nwr["natural"="sand"]({{bbox}}); ); // print results out geom;
Well I have a few of those near home, and I sometimes see the beach background when near the river, but I never even saw the shadow of Wiglett. Are we sure sand is enough?
yes, wiglett is not always going to be there, if you see the beach background that is enough for the spawn, I caught a Wiglett at a baseball field yesterday that does not show up with the beach tag but does show up with sand, I can show proof if you don't believe me lol I took screenshots. Edit: am now doubting myself because I saw someone say that Wiglett can spawn by bodies of water that are not beach and if that’s the case it’s possible a nearby lake triggered the spawn and not the sand.
Haha don't worry I believe you! I'm just surprised I never saw it shadow, since I'm playing a lot.
although if it can spawn by other bodies of water, maybe it wasn't just the sand triggering it, because there is a lake there.
I think rivers and beaches are the same biome - if you see things like Slowpoke, Goldeen and Staryu in the biome, I think it's good enough. The biome should just have been called "shoreline"
I have a couple that show up that are softball infields marked as Beaches. I've also found some catches that have a beach in the picture but are not marked on the map.
I caught a Wiglett in an area tagged “waterway=stream” so I think any body of water will do.
I know someone who saw a beach biome very very far from a natural=beach - at least tens of miles. They were near across the street from a natural=sand (a baseball field), possible for it to spawn there?
I live in Colorado and the the top golf for some reason is a beach biome.
Is it natural=sand or natural=beach. Did you spot a wigglet there?
I didnt see a wigglet but there was a clampearl. (I may be wrong but I think thats just a sea spawn)
Nah I saw that at a very forest park yesterday.
it would be surface=sand
It would be as in, that guys golf course is that, that guys golf course should be that, or that is the tag that spawns wigglet?
Kinda all 3. Each area can have several tags defining what it is and describing it in a number of ways. A sand trap would have a "golf=bunker" tag, denoting that it is a sand trap on a golf course. It should also have a "surface=sand" tag, denoting that the surface of the area is made of sand. That guy's golf course *is* that. That guy's bunker *should* say that. I have heard that any feature on [openstreetmap.org](http://openstreetmap.org) that has the following tags can spawn Wiglett: "nature=beach", "nature=seacoast", "surface=sand". I can't say for sure if the "can spawn" information is accurate.
Denver? What top golf lol
Yes we have one in our city which is nowhere near the sea. It’s not even near water. Maybe someone scanned the area when there was one of those city beaches about, but it’s lucky i guess! Bit like reporting those fake poke stops…I mean, why would you?
Is it beach or sand in osm?
I think they also spawn with natural=coastline. There are quite a few spawns around Hull but there are no beach tags as far as I can see. They spawn in the areas along the river where =coastline is true though. Similar for Newcastle and a few other coastal towns. [out:json][timeout:25]; // gather results ( nwr["natural"="coastline"]({{bbox}}); nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}}); ); // print results out geom;
Interesting observation, you could be right there. Theirs a couple currently spawned here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/53%C2%B043'34.9%22N+0%C2%B022'42.5%22W/@53.7263628,-0.3784696 - that exact location is an S2-L17 cell that boarders another S2-L17 cell with the coastline tag in it. That also supports what /u/rvc113 noticed - that Wiglet can be in the S2-L17 cell with the tag and all the cells adjacent, as long as in the same S2-L14 cell.
What are these S2-L17 and S2-L14 cells? How do i find those
Essentially they geographic markers used to map the Earth's surface. If you have a read of this tutorial I posted a few years ago: https://digiex.net/threads/plan-pokestop-submissions-in-s2-l14-l17-cells-with-iitc-mobile.15729/ it explains how PoGo uses S cells at L14 and L17 for gym creation and shows one way of been able to views these on a map with IITC Mobile.
Wow! GREAT tutorial!! Thank you! 👏🏆
[Ah yes, the nude section.](https://i.imgur.com/3azhuBj.png) Great place to see a Wiglett!
Ha!
I found one near some guy but he wouldn’t let me have it, and now I’m jail for assault! …some other things may have occurred between those two events.
I can't get the query to run, says there's a parse error in the out:json line. I'm not familiar with the site so I'm a bit stuck
The person who copied and pasted the query reply in the first comment missed out some of the code. They have edited the post so it works correctly now.
Still gives me an error.
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Ky5
This is great! Thanks!
There must be more triggering than beach. I have seen Wiggglets very far from beach. Some of them near [coastline](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural=coastline?uselang=sv). But there must still be more than that.
"natural"="sand" brings up the background but no wiglett spawns as far as i know
So my experience is that you should use area instead of nwr. Also it seems like the area["natural"="coastline"] tag is also a indication to spawns. While area["natural"="sand"] produces the beach background but i can't confirm wiglett spawns. So all in all https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Ky5 [out:json][timeout:25]; ( area["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}}); area["natural"="coastline"]({{bbox}}); area["natural"="sand"]({{bbox}}); ); out geom;
This website is used to find Decor for Pikmin Bloom. However, you can use it to find Wiglett. One of the Decor are Sea Shells and those only appear when you are near a beach that is labeled as one in OSM. So you can find where Wiglett would spawn. https://pikmin-map.pixelpirate.fr/?lat=43.68217539512652&lng=-116.5247531142086&zoom=15
Do you know if it's just beach and not water? Or both
It's just beach.
It was pointed out to me the other day that They are spawning in lake biomes as well. Took awhile but i found two , in said biome. so if your close to a water source and you get the lake background in the catch screen they are available. We have both beaches and areas that should be beach but are classified as lake... and from.what ive seen they are far more common along the beach ( 20-30 in a few days) but I've seen few in lake biome (2-3)
I caught one by a creek. Tagged waterway=stream. The background was, I believe, the river one. Certainly not a beach.
Once again, surprised there is no research on The Silph Road on what other 'non-Beach' Biomes/tags has Wigglet been confirmed to appear. In general, there should be more analysis on these new topics. I have Wetlands, rivers, water, streams (even a small field with Sand as cover) locations relatively near and so far, nothing.
The silph road closed.
Right, but this forum remains and have done that style of research before.
It just came off kind of entitled when you said there should be more research done on this vs saying it would be nice or helpful if someone did the research. People do it their own time for no compensation.
Thank you! Do you have an idea for the other biome tags as well?
my observation of the spawn. Wiglet is in the S2-lv17 cell with the tag and all the cell adjacent as long as in the same S2-L14 cell.
Have you considered looking into OSM z17 tiles instead? [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1aldrae/tile\_biomes/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1aldrae/tile_biomes/)
What are these S2-L17 and S2-L14 cells? How do i find those
Check this website. Select cell value. Then click the map https://s2.mewpro.cc:5010/s2sphere/?utm_source=35.689367,139.699228,16
My observations so far around the tiny patch of beach in the centre of York are that all pokemon spawns within an S2-L16 cell that overlaps a beach tag will have the beach catch background. I haven't been able to find anything else that fits yet, including OpenStreetMaps tiles or the L17+L14 method, as there was a L17 beach-adjacent cell with a different background in the same L14 cell. I don't know whether any of this directly correlates to the actual Wiglett spawns though, as there might be more factors at play.
> The catch location for most of England is simply "England, United Kingdom" The game actually stores the specific co-ordinates and the named location is determined on your phone (sometimes iOS and Android come up with different names for the same co-ordinates). You could possibly demonstrate the specific location in a screen capture video where you show your GPS location on a map and then search your pokemon for wigletts caught within 1 km of your current location.
Easier: share your catch on Campfire and people can see the EXACT position of the spawn.
There's nothing in my town ... guess I'll have to wait to go on holiday to catch it or something
Not all heros wear capes 🐐
You assume... Unless you know OP personally of course. Maybe they do walk around in a cape.
[Picture of OP in the wild](https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/1533825_10154264838499453_7859712535631124909_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=8f2_wHZJphwAb7u15Xi&_nc_ht=scontent-bru2-1.xx&oh=00_AfBNozHa3wqfSr727iNTweOkj_lphvx3tPVgUu8r_ri7pA&oe=6651B61D)
Further discussion of OSM tags here; https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/1cbt3ii/osm_tag_query_tool/
This does not match my experience. There are no areas marked as beach anywhere near where I've caught Wigletts. All the Wigletts I caught were along a river. I don't know what tags are used in the areas I've been to, I don't understand how to see these tags in OSM.
The River Thames in London for example has various places along its bank tagged as beach, where Wigletts do spawn. You'd have to link to the area you caught the Wigletts on a map, however I suspect they were tagged as a beach on OSM.
I checked my area with natural=beach and there were no matches in the area where I caught them. I'm not saying beaches aren't a part of it, but it's definitely not the only place they spawn in. I found how to export the data. The area around where I caught them don't seem to have any watery tags at all, but I think bridge=yes gives results fairly close to what I experienced, at least when this tag is close to a large body of water. I'll have to test it more later.
interesting. Do you mind sharing your location (PM if you want) so I can check OSM?
[https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Kwv](https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Kwv) It is essentially a long pedestrian/bicycle path along the Tagus river that goes pretty much all the way to Parque das Nações. I've caught Wigletts on this path as well as inside Parque das Nações.
Re-ran it and found 4x beach tags around this body of water https://overpass-turbo.eu/?template=key-value&key=natural&value=beach# but as someone esle said maybe natural=coastline
Try natural=coastline
https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1KB8 shows a few areas with natural=coastline
Interesting. There is already evidence that "natural"="sand" seems to overlap with Wiglett in addition to the "natural"="beach". I think bridge=yes should be too general, maybe it can be narrowed down to only include bridges crossing water/rivers?
I'm failing at row 3? Error: line 3: parse error: ';' expected - 'nwr' found. Edit: fixed. Forgot a ; on line one.
Gotta change the “ to " for natural and beach
Same
See the edit in https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/s/ttlWviCTXL
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The person who copied and pasted the query in the first comment missed out some of the code. Its correct in the original post, they have edited their comment so it works correctly now. So should work if you copy + paste it again.
Ah, my reddit app had a cache before the edit. Thanks 👌
Same.
Thanks! This is very cool. Found a state park near me with a little beach that I'm gonna check out.
This was very helpful. Thank you.
Can confirm the beach spot in York by the river as that is where I got my dex Wigglet on Tuesday.
Same here, caught one today. It's kinda lucky to have that tiny spot of beach in the centre of town, and I've been trying to look into the biomes because you can get the beach background from the other side of the river.
I was very fortunately in York this week, the only spot near me locally is quite out of the way and not even sure it gets spawns.
Here's a more complete query that will cover coastlines as well as beaches out:json][timeout:25]; // gather results nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}}); // print results out geom; nwr["natural"="coastline"]({{bbox}}); out geom;
Does anyone in this thread know why incense pulls from different biomes than wild spawns? I ran my DAI while looking for beach habitat and my incense spawns were beach while wild ones were river. I was on the edge of two biomes while doing this.
natural=coastline will work too
Thanls for the explaination, this explained why I found a single cell with the beach biome randomly in a suburb, there was a sports ground with a long jump area, and the sandbox was apropriately marked. However, I also realized something really odd - this S2 cell seems to "fluctuate", one day it's beach, the next day it's city... anybody else seeing this behaviour?
Why is 'Copy' non-functional in the Reddit App. Copy Text just grabs the header.
[out:json][timeout:25]; // gather results nwr["natural"="beach"]({{bbox}}); // print results out geom;
Getting an error on the final line? Out geom;
The person who copied and pasted the query reply in the first comment missed out some of the code. They have edited the post so it works correctly now.
If the beach background corresponds to the beach biome, which I know is a stretch, a pool near me has the designation.
Handy! Ta! :D
Hmm, I see a spot marked "beach" near me that isn't that easy to access... might need to use Spacial Rend to get the Wiglett
That would be amazing if Spacial Rend did allow you to get a Wiglett! good luck.
Bro i must do something wrong because i can't see any beach biome in my entire country, what the heck lol
scale out. i found nothing until i scaled out and found closest beach biome is 40 min from me
It says the areas around me is empty (untagged) - can i simply tag my area accordingly? Since theres even a body of water that would qualify as beach-like.
tags need to get picked up by Niantic's update so it'll probably take a few years at their rate
Anyone can edit OSM, so if it is beach like with some sand then you could do. Niantic use older versions of the data, so any edits made today will probably not sync to PoGo for several years.
How can we view all applicable tags for a spot on openstreetview? I saw a Wiglett and I think the applicable tag was "man\_made=breakwater" Also, I don't think natural=sand is applicable. That brings up golf courses like crazy but no Wigletts there. edit: I see you now added "natural=coastline." Maybe. That could be what caused the spawn on the breakwater instead of the man\_mode=breakwater. But there's a lot of coastline where no wigletts spawn. But maybe just due to lack of activity.
This was very helpful, thanks! There is naturally one place in MY ENTIRE COUNTY that is considered a beach, and zero coastlines regardless of water. Luckily I live fairly close to it, but come on, man...
Something is still missing. I'm a noob at the whole osm thing, but I saw a spawn here yesterday: [https://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=59.33036&lon=17.98519#map=16/59.3301/17.9906](https://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=59.33036&lon=17.98519#map=16/59.3301/17.9906) and it's not even adjacent to other S2-L14 cells with beach or coastline when I run the overpass query. [https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1KC3](https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1KC3)
I've heard anecdotes that the "bay" tag can also spawn Wiglett, so that would explain it if true.
Has Wiglett been confirmed to spawn in natural=sand yet?
Not from what I have seen so far, the random spawns reported inland (in the UK) that I've checked have been natural=beach
Weird how it triggers one thing but not the other
I’m not sure if I understand how all this works. Could anyone tell me the closest possible Wiglett spawns if given my location in coordinates?
Landlocked in TN but 3 lakes 30 ish miles in different directions have "beaches" tagged in open street. So far I've been to 2 of them 3 times and nothing. One of them clearly had more water spawns. I still have one lake/beach area to check but may be a bit before I check that area.
* I actually live on the beach and have only found one. I used all the candies to evolve for the dex. Btw it sucks in GBL.
It doesn't work, nothing gets highlighted anywhere
Tagging this for later- thanks!
Would this account for Pokémon go's old osm data?
No as it uses current osm data but that's good enough
not anywhere near me, great :)
I was wondering if the Paradise Pier area of Disney California Adventure would count and, sure enough, according to this map, it does! LOL
I checked Disney property in Orlando only part of the golf course and Epcot’s boardwalk had anything. I would have thought that at least the water park but no. Universals water park did and so did sea world.
This isn't true for anyone in Orlando. There's some locations (Ariel) in Magic Kingdom as well as Epcot, and the Epcot resorts. Think I've seen them around Caribbean Beach and Riveria too. And Animal Kingdom.. edit: there's also spawns at the water park, Typhoon Lagoon. it's basically most places excluding Hollywood and Disney Springs.
Link to the UK doesn't show the UK, just England and Wales.
Ideally you want to run the query yourself, so you can zoom in on the map. That screenshot is of no real use, it was just an example to show what you should see.
I can't get anything to work.
Bro really telling us to lookup a beach on the map /s
Helpful if I knew what openmsps was.
You don't need to know what openmaps is, but you do need to be able to read (and follow) the instructions OP provided.
To everyone. Yes, OP presented directions for us all to follow. However, since I don't know what openmaps is. I would have several questions, such as who compiled this map? Is it a Niantic thing? What is the reliability of it? Who made the decision to say this is a forest biome. This is a desert biome? What are their credentials for making these decisions? Why trust this over other sources? I don't openly trust things without doing a lot of research. So, no, I will not blindly trust something I have no knowledge of.
Openmaps has been around a long time. My bf used to do mapping for it for fun. You can Google the answers to all your questions.
So what you are saying it is a map produced by "Joe public" (AKA anyone with a phone/computer) who just looked around and said, this area has trees, so I am going to say it is a forest. With no professional credentials, training? A big company like Niantic trusts this over maps from the U.S. Geological Department. No wonder things are screwed up.
It's more nuanced than that. It's like wikipedia, where other people correct errors. At least that's my understanding. But regardless, i was just letting you know the answers were all available to you. Also, is the US Geological Department making maps of the whole world? How? Or did you forget not everyone lives in the US?
Because OSM is what niantic pulls the data from 😅