Artwork viewable, but not accessible.
dbrowtg936-PGO
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There is a beautiful mural painted in a concrete canal near my house. It is dry for the majority of the year and is clearly viewable by onlookers from the pathway. It gets a lot of foot traffic and would benefit from a waypoint. The question is whether you need to be able to stand directly atop artwork waypoints. I know there are some big statues out there that are waypoints, so I don't know if artwork would be considered the same as something like a playground. Without stepping down into the arroyo, you can get within 10 feet. Is it eligible?
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A pedestrian should be able to safely touch it. This one sounds like it would lack safe pedestrian access.
Alright, thanks!
On this topic, say that you can stand directly under a point of interest, like a suspended piece of lighting art or a mural painted on the third story of a building, but cannot touch it. Do you reject that for safe pedestrian access as well? Or is it acceptable because it is a safe location in two dimensions?
Yeah, it’s a 2-dimensional map.
Niantic has even said explicitly that this is acceptable (2-D map), but I've had something on a roof rejected for pedestrian access all the same.
Do you have this bookmarked? I can't seem to find it again.
Here are two references from old Ingress AMAs:
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Q53: Regarding the policy that you must be able to reach out and touch a wayspot for it to be safe, does this disqualify objects/paintings on the outside of buildings that are too high to reach from the ground?
A53: The policy page says “Regardless of any other criteria, if a nomination doesn’t have pedestrian access it is not eligible.” Height is not something that is explicitly considered. If you can safely reach the wall a mural is painted on, but the mural is 20 feet off the ground, that is fine.
Q12: Would underwater portals ever be A Thing? For example the MUSA Museo Subacuático de Arte in Cancun
A12: Interesting question. I think some exist already. We don’t take height into account. I personally don’t see a difference between summiting a mountain top with specialized gear any different than needing specialized gear to submit an underwater portal. Just my opinion though.
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I feel like this has been also stated more recently in perhaps this forum, but I would have a hard time finding it.
I've also wondered how the "touch it" criteria applied to high things, so thanks for the explanation and quotes.