Rooftop Park - Help me improve
Ark4242-PGO
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The title is the same as the description (Japanese/English is a common thing to do here)
This was rejected for:
- Photo appears to include a recognizable license plate
- Photo is low quality (e.g., pitch black/blurry photos or photos taken from a car)
- The real-world location of the nomination appears to be on private residential property or farm.
...which are all incredibly shocking in just how badly wrong they are. What do you think I can do to get this approved? It's literally a public park, that just happens to be on the roof of a large building which contains shopping, restaurants, and government facilities. I asked people to please check the satellite view, because of course, street view is going to show you the side of the building.
Is the sign by the entrance to the garden area not a good proxy picture for the garden itself? I figured with the "You are here" and "4F" on the sign, it's a good indicator to people where the garden is. Not that anybody would really have trouble getting to it by just going up the 1 set of escalators. Should I have included that same sign in the surrounding-area picture? Or should both pictures be outside in the garden itself? There's no further signs with the name of the location anywhere.
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That sign probably is not a good way to show the submission. It's just a generic sign for a floor. That photo would be better used in supplemental information that the actual item of interest. Would make more sense to switch the pictures around at first already.
The sign looks good. I don’t see where it says “park” on that sign. If it does even better.
Is this roof garden a community based garden or is it just there for people to look at? You can always make a photosphere to help with location verification.
Also when you do your supporting photo its usually best when you show the actual poi you submit in that photo as well (show the sign in the supporting picture with the rest).
If its just a garden thats not community based and its not actually a park you will have a hard time getting it to pass I think.
The sign had the "you are here" on it, where as there's no play equipment here. Just trees, benches, and tables. It's also the only sign that says the name of the location.
庭園 means garden, in the Japanese traditional sense. Not in the sense of growing flowers or vegetables. This is a public place to sit and relax, walk around the path, or bring your lunch and eat. There are photospheres already here in a few spots, not from myself.
I almost always do the 80/20 rule. The only reason I didn't with this sign was that it has a very obvious "you are here" mark that's easy to line up with the shape of the garden. I'm considering making a collage of a few pics for my supplemental picture next time.
Are you submitting through Ingress? I tried submitting a collage/gallery image through PoGo yesterday using the Forgery app, and it didn't work. A box popped up saying to use the phone's native camera app, so it looks like they may have blocked Forgery and other such third-party apps in PoGo.
Yes, I play both games. It's a lot easier to submit through Ingress since it has a built-in picture chooser. I used to have Forgery Camera for submitting via PoGo, but as you said, it does not work with the latest version of Android due to Android's new "security" feature and there's no way to make it ever work again. It's not PoGo that's blocking access to 3rd party camera apps, it's Google.
I went out and took some more pictures this morning. Any advice as to which picture to use for the nomination and which shots to try to collage together for the supporting picture? https://imgur.com/a/ySPT0ZR
Oh, for some reason I thought it still worked on Android 9, which is what made me think that PoGo blocked it. Too bad.
I personally prefer the photos inside the garden, especially where you can see the chairs, more than the ones from inside the building. But I'd say to go with your gut, since you know the Japanese wayfarer community.
Hah... my gut says that Japanese reject everything. Except for car bridges and manholes. Especially manholes with a picture of a fire truck on them, because it's painted in color. Clearly the best thing ever.
Ok seriously though, I feel like any picture of just chairs/trees will get rejected as either doesn't-meet-criteria, or natural feature. Anything with a roof though, is automatically a gazebo, and accepted.
If it is a rooftop park dose everyone around the area has axis to or only to people in that building 🏫
I think I already mentioned this, but the building is shops, restaurants, and even some government branch offices. Everything is open to the public, but even if it wasn't, that wouldn't be even the slightest reason to reject. There isn't anybody living in this building anywhere at all.
The next building over is a tower condo, and is connected on the inside. The lower floors of that building also have shops, a grocery store, a large book store, and connect to the train station on the other side. And of course, the higher floors are not places people would go unless they lived there.