Contradictory Rule: Public Park
PrinceLock-PGO
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Ingress guidelines say nothing about public parks. But Pokémon GO says it’s ok to turn a public park into a Portal/PokéStop.
Do you normally accept parks, especially those with only trees and benches?
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AgentB0ss-ING
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For a park to be considered to become a Waypoint there needs to be a physical object that represents the park. Normally you would nominate a sign to represent the entire park and then would submit additional items within the park such as athletic fields, playgrounds etc. However, just an open field with trees, benches, and grass you are unlikely to find something that meets criteria.
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NorthSeaPoet-ING
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The guidelines are Wayfarer guidelines, not Ingress, not Pokemon, just Wayfarer.
Parks are eligible if there's a physical object like a sign that represents the whole park. There might be things in the park as well that are eligible such as a playground, or a statue, or an athletic field.
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For a park to be considered to become a Waypoint there needs to be a physical object that represents the park. Normally you would nominate a sign to represent the entire park and then would submit additional items within the park such as athletic fields, playgrounds etc. However, just an open field with trees, benches, and grass you are unlikely to find something that meets criteria.
The guidelines are Wayfarer guidelines, not Ingress, not Pokemon, just Wayfarer.
Parks are eligible if there's a physical object like a sign that represents the whole park. There might be things in the park as well that are eligible such as a playground, or a statue, or an athletic field.
I like to add onto what @AgentB0ss-ING and @NicoMG4-PGO said. Not just any sign will do. It has to be a name sign. The sign can include other information, such as park rules, amenities or hours, but the name of the park needs to be potently featured on the sign.
Thank you for the addition! I did forget to add that in my post. :)
You can also do an entrance to a park to represent it all if the entrance has unique architecture or is clearly part of the park (meaning gates) but most of these will have signs at them anyway. If it doesnr, maybe contact your local council about getting signs put up, the parks and rec department (I have to do that for one near me, it's a fairly decent sized park and is on google maps yet no descernable sign or entrance for it)
Let me guess, the park you're nominating keep getting rejected?
I think there's not problem with that, but it would be better if you include the park sign (if any) to the photo.