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POI not appearing ingame
dracoMedia-PGO
Posts: 16 ✭✭
Hi there,
Hopefully I'm using the correct board for the issue.
Background:
Originally, I've submitted some candidates through the app. At the beginning, some POIs got accepted and are no longer marked as provisional wayspot in the app. By some reason, after days, the POI not appeared ingame, neither Ingress nor PoGo. I was respecting the known criteria to let the POI appear on the map (like minimum distance to existing POIs or checking for empty S2 cell). But even then this POI never appeared.
Then I submitted this candidate again through PoGo and it got rejected because of being a duplicate. So somehow, this POI is existing for reviewing, but not ingame available.
Details of POI:
Name: Wandtafel "Haus Frankenburg"
Coords: 47.7295, 12.8787
Location: Bad Reichenhall, Germany
I have some more candidates submitted via the beta app so I'm aware that I could have a similar problem here as well, once they got accepted some day but not appearing ingame and I need to re-submit them.
Would be awesome if some of the NIA team, maybe @NianticDanbocat or any other could review this issue.
Comments
Danbocat hasn't been with the Wayfarer team for quite some time.
The Wayfarer app is not currently intended for Pokémon Go or Ingress players to use for submissions. Wayspots submitted through it may not appear in any games even if they're accepted.
Thanks for letting me know about the situation with Danbocat. Perhaps @NianticTintino-ING may instead have a look at this?
I know about this that Wayspots via Wayfarer app in some cases may not appear ingame. Unfortunately, I learned this after I did plenty of submissions. So I'm having 20-30 submissions stuck in the app (I used it since it's much more convenient than through POGO/Ingress for myself). Due to this unknown future of my "stuck" submissions, I started re-submitting them through POGO in my case. But the above named example got rejected due to duplicate. But how can the reviewer know that as this POI doesn't exist in any of the games?
So my fear is that all my re-submitted candidates will get rejected due to duplicate but never appear in any game by this curiosity.
@NianticTintino-ING said that we shouldn't use the wayfarer app to submit nominations, as the current target for the app are developers using the Niantic SDK
as mentioned before, this information was given (to me) after I did all those submissions.
And according to some bug, the accepted submissions are not always showing up in any game but obviously for wayfarer votings it exists.
Eixistence as regular wayspot in Wayfarer app:
Submission result via PoGo:
Since I'm not in this area at the moment, I cannot provide any ingame footage of that area, but in Intel map you can look it up for Ingress that it doesnt exist either.
@NianticTintino-ING perhaps you could have a quick look on that issue which seems to become a general problem for all those did the same like I did:
1) submitting via Wayfarer app before noticing about the info to not submit canddiates anymore
2) re-submitting candidates through Ingress/PoGo and getting them rejected since they're somehow in the POI pool even being just temporary candidates