Best coordinates to set as bonus for the event
TurckoPT-ING
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Since the bonus location is a fixed set of coordinates that then gives nominations for the S6 (S5?) cells around it, can someone from India sugest a good location with a lot of nominations in queue?
I assume it's a big enough country to span several S6 (S5?) cells, and I have 0 local knowledge of queue status.
Thanks!
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Sadly, the area covered by a bonus location seem to have been shrunk to the S2 L7 cell you put it in, plus the eight surrounding L7 cells. It's just 1/4 of what it used to be.
I don't have the knowledge about the queue status (or what does it even mean lol) but just listing out the major metropolitan cities in India. There might be more, i'm just listing the ones at top of my head -
Maybe Nagpur.
@Mormegil71-ING actually your observation is more right than mine. Initially I thought it was just a cluster of four S2 L6 cells or like one big S2 L5 cell, but I didn't pay attention much to my one.
My concern is that because the scope of the bonus location is so small, some people are going to just type "India" and pin it where Google places it, and completely miss all major cities.
On the contrary, people may select only just the major cities and find out that's not where the hardest or longest queues are, making it ineffective.
Ignore.
To add on to what @HaramDingo-ING said, these cities either fall within range of another big city or have the local reviewer numbers to process queues relatively quickly.
From my observations, I would say Nagpur or Patna have some long standing queues and cover the empty area of central India. They both have upcoming communities that are trying to expand their POIs.
There is also Guwahati in the north east area of India that has a bunch of local nominators and can cover some under-reviewed areas.
After looking at population density map I think that this 9 cells are best location.
Thanks for all the inputs. Nagpur seems central enough to be a good pick (thanks @aaronvianno-ING), as well as the area higlighted by @00KiubaNo12-PGO.
Interesting.... is keyword "nagpur" is enough for searching? I hope only one area has nagpur name in India.
Thank you I'll put this as one of the option.
My 2 cents : set a location in India. You will get candidates from all the country.
I agree with @Blaumut-ING , My location is set to New Delhi and i've reviewed Locations from all over India. Im just happy that there's finally going to be a fair number of reviewers tackling the queue that's been built up.
I wonder if they will boost the amount we get from our bonus location, if there is an event I would like to participate and not be reviewing 1 nomination from India for every 20-50 I review near me
That is not how bonus locations work, at least not normally. If that was the case I would not have asked this question :)
My real question on this point is "Where does the region need the most help?". Not just where can I get lots of potential targets.
Apparently I can't post S6 reference maps here though. Keep getting moderated.
EDIT: Oh updated.
In terms of where reviews come from:
When you expand to "Great" rating, it also includes:
In terms of India, these are the Bonus Location cells, and you can only pick one.
Too big to fit on one screen while also showing a decent display of cities.
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Missed the North East of India. 😬
Oh, so I did!
I usually get nominations from the northern and southern S6 cells of my bonus location.
The reviewing range is dynamic. Last I observed a minimum of about 300 kms. We've seen it go up to ~450 Kms too. But yeah, you'll end up getting nominations from all over the country too because of the long standing queues.
Hello!
@NianticCasey-ING could you please reset my bonus location so I can help India? Thank you
@Perringaiden-ING wrote:
"In terms of where reviews come from:
National boundaries seem to play some part in the first of these, the location where you are playing. I am playing in the UK, and I get reviews from all over the UK, including Northern Ireland and the northernmost parts of Scotland. As far as I remember I have never gotten a review from the Republic of Ireland even though that is closer than Northern Ireland and much closer than reviews I have had from Scotland. I have had a small handful of reviews from France, however.
When I last visited the USA (summer 2019) I mainly got reviews from near where I was playing, but I also got some reviews from all around the country, including a few from Hawaii 6500 km away! At the same time, I got nothing to review from Canada even though I wasn't very far from Canada.
On the other hand, my home and bonus locations have only resulted in reviews in the areas around them, so the S6 cell idea holds true for them as far as I can tell.
Incidentally, my bonus location is in Dehra Dun in India, so I'll be taking part in the India Wayfarer Challenge.
@Pangarban-ING
National boundaries seem to play some part in the first of these, the location where you are playing.
You are correct, if you keep reading.
When you expand to "Great" rating, it also includes:
All S6 cells that overlap the country where you interact with portals.
Any insight into which location might provide the most interesting POIs from a tourist standpoint? I live in a rural landlocked state of USA and haven't got to travel since COVID so I was thinking I'd set my bonus location on a city near the coast of india just to get a good change of scenery.