Nomination location suggestions I gave to submitters that didn't help when reviewing
Spinky108-PGO
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When I review and give location edit suggestions for nomination locations I know are inaccurate with what's being nominated, the suggestion always gets denied as in the nomination's marker with the location gets put where the submitter originally put it. It happens quite frequently where I compare the submitted location with the photos provided, suggest a location edit and know the original location is inaccurate.
How I can tell it is happening often: Players are nominating things around the same area that are close to each other, with the same wayspots existing there when I jump across different cities around the same country I am reviewing in. I look at the map where you check for duplicates for the nominations, and see photos of nominations I know I reviewed before which are located inaccurately. Why I see photos of them there on the map must mean they got accepted because the map is supposed to display the existing wayspots in the area.
Why are my location edit suggestions getting denied? Does it have anything to do with clicking the 'suggest a new location' button and the location rating where you rate the location automatically becoming a 5 star rating when you click that button? Does that auto-generated rating actually rate the original location the submitter put instead?
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It likely takes more than just you to get the location pin moved. If not enough other reviewers are also moving the pin, it seems reasonable that it won't get moved.
Instead of suggesting new locations, I could rate the submitted location 3 stars or lower, since that could actually make the submitter have to nominate the thing/place again and try to put the marker more accurate.
If it's in your local area, you can do an edit to the proper location after it's in a game. More of a pain, I know, but I have the same problem in my area of other reviewers approving without checking the location (or not caring to check).
One of the few things Niantic has told us, is that different reviewers' votes count (are weighted) differently. If you usually place pins (or judge location edits) based on PokemonGO cell rules, your vote might be weighed less.
Also, if the nomination was done by an app developer thru a csv supplied to Niantic - or by a hired "surveyor" - location changes are probably ignored. According to the Lightship Summit 2022 last month, app development is being encouraged in 6 big cities (not sure radius); they're working on another 6, with plans to add 8 more for a total of 20 this year. And Niantic hires surveyors in these cities to nominate and do lots of scans. See https://lightship.dev/products/vps/
If you have more time, the Lightship 2002 session that mostly addresses this is Understanding Lightship VPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDRR_RRNgzc&list=PLCyCMgj5D_z7rtq_6UamxxgMNNvEjoulK&index=2