Pokéstop hasn't appeared
Hey!
New to discussion... So hello.
I had a pokéstop approved on Thursday but it still hasn't appeared, 2 others that have been approved have appeared since. Does anyone have any idea who I can contact about this please?
Thanks
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Hello and welcome. Pokémon uses spacing rules call S2 cells. Only one pokestop will appear per cell. More than likely, your nomination Is in a cell that is already occupied. You may supply the address or coordinates and someone will be happy to check for you. In the Meantime, it is best to learn the cell system before nominating.
Thanks very much. It is near another stop but in the city there's hundreds of stops right next to each other! I'll have another read into it. Thanks again.
The cell line might pass directly between the two (or three, or four) pokestops you see right next to each other. They can be close as long as they are in their own cell. Kind of like standing on the border between two states and putting one foot in each state.
Is there any recommended sites to see cells? I did look when I first started nominating but got a bit lost with how many there were! Thanks
That's the stop. 266A, BS10 7QR.
Each purple square is one cell, only one pokestop per cell. As far as the map goes, someone else will have to help you with that. Someone helped me set it up and I really don’t remember how we did it. Do you have a local wayfarer group?
Hello Joypot
Unfortunately it is the spacing rules that are preventing it appearing in Pokémon Go.
Was it the community garden sign?
It was approved and is in the Lightship database - this holds all approved wayspots and is separate from all Niantic games.
Each game sets its own rules as to what it will take from the database to use in that game.
For Pokémon Go the rules revolve around the use of some mapping software commonly referred to as S2 cells it breaks down the surface into smaller and smaller cells - each size is referred to as level and a number.
Google S2 cells and Pokémon Go - Pokémongohub has a very good explanation.
The key is that in PoGo it only accepts 1 wayspot in each Level 17 cell, so if there is already a pokestop or gym in the game from that cell yours will not be selected.
This is from the ingress intel map with an overlay to show the cells
You can see there are 2 spots already in that cell so only 1 will show in Pokémon Go.
The community garden sign is too close to one of these and it doesn’t meet the ingress spacing rule which is 20m so you can’t see this wayspot on the intel map. So basically your wayspot is waiting for a game to come along and possibly use it.
I'm not sure if there's a local one! I'll have a look
To also add to this, players did some location edit abuse a while back to move Wayspots, and when moved they didn’t stop becoming PokéStops, so there are many areas with “abuse clusters” now that Niantic haven’t yet tidied up.
This is so bad.. have the same problem.. took me over one year to get only a second pokestop in my area.. with reviewing for upgrades and everything.. finally got one accepted and now it won’t appear..
Checked the cell map a bit and.. how is it possible, that in cities are several Spots in one cell? Sometimes 3-4
Read @PkmnTrainerJ-ING 's comment above.
Whoops sorry
So there is no way to get the pokestop? It will be a duplicate if I submit it 2meters more left right?
If the Waypoint is already in the database and being used in other games, then the photo and location will be visible during the nomination review process and it will get marked as a duplicate.
It’s already in the Niantic Lightship database and would show up to reviewers who would correctly mark it as a Duplicate.
@TibberX1909-PGO
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if it was the intel map with overlay like the one I posted above then the red dots are portals in Ingress. In many cases multiple dots in a cell won’t translate to multiple stops in Pokémon Go. They only are stops or gyms if in the past they were moved into that cell.
it is frustrating when you wait that long and then this is the outcome. Hopefully you now understand more so select POI to submit that hopefully will appear. Hard though it is, it is best to move on from this one. If you want help with suggestions for nominations or trying to ensure your nomination is as strong a case as it can be please do post in nomination improvement section and people will try to help.