street sign with name of famous person
Guendinger-PGO
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Street signs as such are not admissible, but does the situation change if the street is named after a famous or important person. E.g. in Germany, some streets are named after local or regional persons that were somehow important, and there is sometimes a small extra sign located below the street sign itself, the sign giving information about that person.
Hence, such a street sign is a bit more that a street sign as such, but is this sufficient to overcome the rejection criteria?
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I don't know how it is in Germany, but in America, it's very common to see streets named after a famous or notable individual. So since it's not particularly visually distinct/unique to see such, I would say probably not eligible. I would be open to Niantic correcting me on this though.
Its 100% luck-based in Germany with such signs because tere is no real clarification about it. Normally, those signs only get approved with a good description + extra information about the person, not only the ones that are given on the sign.
I tride it twice, both got rejected
I was talking exactly about such a sign as attached to the antecedent posting, but with much less information about the person giving the name to the street.
I would tend to refuse such wayspots, because they are on first glance not different from any other street sign. but I'm not really sure what to do
When this sign is not mass production (another that normal street sign) in my opinnion its good nomination, but you must confirm that it is some important person.
But importance is difficult to assess, no doubt that Goethe, Schiller or an actor like Joachim Fuchsberger are such persons.
But what if the person is only relevant for the history of a small town or village? Like a former mayor, so let's say we have a "Bürgermeister-Huber-Straße" - such a wayspot would have a meaning to the locals
Do you think it is sufficient that the importance of the person is a local one?
I would approve local persons more than the "mainstream" ones.
There are hundreds of "Schiller street"s in Germany but propably only one "Hans Günther Kleeblatt street", so this one is more unique.
For normal-looking signs then I think the answer is clearly no. If John Q Famousperon Street was 20 blocks long then presumably there would be at least 21 different John Q Famousperson Street signs, one at every intersection. It wouldn't make sense to me that all 21 would be eligible.
I might consider one acceptable if it was a special sign in some way, like it was decorated differently from normal signs, and it was one-of-a-kind.
To be a good wayspot, a memorial should engage the visitor. A quote, a picture, SOMETHING unique to the honoree besides just their name.
Here's a good example of s wayspot that may serve as clarification
On top there's a typical street sign (mid XXth century style, although not necessarily that old) there's on on every street corner. Generic and not elegible.
Below, the actual PoI: a plaque explaining why the street has this name. There's only one of such plaques per street if they have it at all, generally located where the street starts.
Good example, here the extra plaque could be a Wayspot for itself.
The street sign I was thinking of a far more unimpressive, like https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Heilige_Geist_Str_RE_SChild_(2).JPG the upper sign giving the Name of the street, and below, it is explained why the name was chosen, in case of a person there is usually year of birth-year of ****-(reason in short) like "Mozartstraße" and below it "W. A. Mozart, 1756-1791, Kompnist der Wiener Klassik". But the extra sign it's not really an eye catcher.
The example you shown is probably on the lower end of elegibility. I've seen some like those and I normally rate them 3*.