Pool House Rejection
Dembonez19-PGO
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Reasons for rejection:
Mismatched Location
Low Quality Photo
The wayspot was placed right at the entrance of the pool house, so I'm not sure why people said the location was mismatched unless they're telling me it's not allowed.
I want to use it as a stand-in for the entire pool area as the pool house is more easily accessed.
As for the low quality reason, I guess I can go back and take a picture of it when it's not cloudy, but I don't know how to fix the "mismatched location" unless I just have to wait for the pool to open and take a photo of that. It'll be almost impossible since, once the pool is open, people are there all day.
Are pool houses just not allowed?
Comments
Try Googling "Stevens Park Swimming pool". The results match but when you click to see the street view it's a totally different place, I don't even find where is it, which shows up !
So of course, no reviewers can have found your pool house, it's not visible on this street view.
You can correct this by adding a photosphere of the place on the street view app.
For the picture, I think they would have preferred something like this, that clearly shows what the building is.
Use the sign as the subject. Reviewers understand signs better than they do buildings.
On the location rejection the pin seems to be approximately correct, but the Google pin for the swimming pool is on the side of the building, which seems to be where your pin is as well. I don’t think that’s rejectable, but it might seem to some like you’re manipulating the pin for inclusion purposes, as the side of the building is not a natural point of discovery. I do note the building is blue on Google street view and green in your picture, but the doors and sign are the same. A photosphere may help clarify that confusion, as street view is not great.
About street view, I've been requesting that reviewers use the satellite view of Google Maps with my submissions since street view of this park is from 2013. The only things that are visible are the buildings that have been around since the 1950s (including this one). But yeah, the location rejection was an odd one. I just noticed the street view for it when you Google it. That makes a lot more sense. The address above the window in the image matched the address of the pin, but yeah, street view is WAY off...
Anyway, I've never done a photosphere before, but I might try it? Also, the sign is a good idea. I could do that. I prefer full buildings since they're easier for players to recognize, but if it saves this from another rejection...
Photospheres are very useful. So long as the ground is relatively flat, they're fairly easy to make as well. Google Street View app is pretty intuitive to use :)
I uploaded a photo sphere to Google Maps a few days ago, and it still hasn't shown up. I wonder if I can renominate this pool house and tell voters in the supporting information to switch to satellite view and move the yellow pin to the road closest to the wayspot. And maybe point out other accepted POIs in the background of the supporting photo.
I don't know who placed the pins in this town on Google Maps, but so many of them are messed up. And some "businesses" aren't even real. If you Google this, the skate park, the local American restaurant, and probably others, it puts you in a different spot.
Anyway, if the photo sphere doesn't upload, I might just have to renominate and do that. Is there a limit to how many times you can nominate the same thing? I know you can only appeal once, and those seem to be backlogged quite a bit.
At first glance it looks like a generic building, did your supporting photo show the pool sign or anything that says it’s a pool house?
Going off of the provided alone I probably would’ve given it Other rejection unless the supporting photo showed what it was better or linked to a page that showed it.
I just went out and took some new pictures. Uploading them instead of applying them directly to save space. Which of the first three is most likely to be picked? I took them all from the sign's side this time, and since it wasn't cloudy, they turned out better.
The first three are potential main photos. The third photo could potentially be both since I think the full building photos show enough of the parking lot to prove it's safely accessed. The fourth photo is potentially supplementary just to show another wayspot nearby.
Now for the location problem, I could do what I said and just ask voters to check satellite view and move the pin to the road closest to the wayspot I marked since Google Maps is incorrect. If they still say it's a mismatched location, then I don't think there's anything I can do until Google Maps fixes their photo sphere problem.
@Dembonez19-PGO It's normal to experience a delay from the time you upload a photosphere in Streetview until it is updated to Maps. My last photosphere took about 8 days to be viewable in Google Maps.
I'd go with the second pic because the sign is more clearly legible than in the first one.
The third pic, which is just the sign, is the one you want. Do not let the reviewers overlook that sign, which clearly states what this location is, instead of letting it get lost in the shadow.
There is no limit to how many times you can nominate the same thing, though if you do it over and over at the same time it may get brought to Niantic’s attention as abusive. Best to wait for that photosphere through.