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That did cross my mind, but I thought, surely not, it says high school in the description. In that case, it becomes how did Niantic not read the wayspot description in the first place. AI auto accept? Is that a thing? Having said that, I did have to appeal the last K-12 invalid wayspot report I made, which was also for a…
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Yes, I can, be worried, very worried about the power of the Internet. 🤣 We all know abusers in the Netherlands ruined things, but the content of this thread has global ramifications. Aaron didn't write a 10000 word essay on how trail markers should be rated, there's still a lot of aspects that would be left to one's "best…
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Not all stickers are created equal however... Here's one of my examples, note submission time in 2023: Then note Google street view from 2016, same sticker: Hopefully it's not something that Niantic would consider to be low quality. It's in a pretty remote area - gets very hot in summer, weatherproof stickers legit last a…
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Phew... Worked out for me in the end. Got to say props to the Niantic reviewer(s), they did it faster than the community would have. Although I think next time I'll definitely put in more effort than what I did for the above, just in case. 😓
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I sure hope so, can we send a list to the local ambassador and they can work with Niantic to do the needful? 😉
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I'm surprised that nomination got past the reviewers in the first place, given that in Australia most colleges are high schools and it even says high school in the description. I reckon someone submitted an invalid wayspots report under K-12 to get it removed once they saw it.
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Depends on the context of the number really. For instance in the city where I live, we have 9 cycling routes - they are called C1 to C9, at most major junctions, there is a big information pillar with map and information, then at smaller junctions along the route, there is normally a simple sign that just says Cnumber and…
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I think Aaron's statement still leaves wriggle room for "use your best judgement". At my local, as previously posted, people are passing off stencils on the footpath and ordinary street signs are trail markers, so I can sort of see where Niantic is coming from with some quite stringent guidelines especially after the…
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Got to admit I'm getting a bit nervous here.
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It's interesting to read the explanation from Aaron, I applaud Aaron for at least communicating something, even though it may not be what many want to hear and it seems to conflict somewhat with previous explanations by other Niantic staff. Personally, I feel a bit better about the trail markers I submitted, as on face…
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I wish I came on here and read these threads earlier. It seems like Niantic is paying close attentions to trail markers right now? I submitted a couple yesterday while exploring a nearby national park and they went straight to Nia voting. If I had known, I probably wouldn't have played Wayfarer roulette. 😥 But fingers…
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The tram goes anywhere between 0-80km/hr, but for that segment where the route is, probably more like 0--40km/hr. I've posted about that route here before and the general consensus is that it's pretty much the definition of no safe pedestrian access, as there are 3 lane carriageways on either side of the tram line. See…
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Joy, a couple of routes that my partner submitted in August finally got processed, the 15km one got approved, the 5km one got rejected due to dangerous area. This makes all 3 of the lake circuit routes we were waiting on have now been processed. It's interesting how the shortest and most popular one got rejected, even…
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No argument about it being CCG property, the links I posted even said so, the point is the title of the thread is inaccurate. You're more than welcome to disagree with me, but if you want to convince others you will need to link to some information rather than relying on "coz I said so". I'm simply posting a potential…
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Just got home and looked at the Intel map, seems like the salt probably comes from the fact the blue links are blocking something for someone trying to field to/from Hawaii. 😂 The title of this thread is pretty misleading though. OP states that the islands are dangerous (it's not, Lighthouse Friends even gave instructions…
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The thing is, coast guard isn't in the business of giving tours and one shouldn't have to depend on that. Seems like the Lighthouse Friends website actually gives useful information, for Lennard, Kains (Quatsino) and Estevan it says grounds are open but lighthouse is closed, whereas for Entrance Island both the grounds and…
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I'm not from Canada but on face value when I checked a couple and they don't seem to be restricted access? For example, Entrance Island seems to have a lot of heritage value: https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_hl_eng.aspx?id=14815 Lennard Island has similar heritage value…
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I was reading this thread while I was watching Grand Designs NZ, I happened to be watching an episode where someone was building a house on Chatham Island, so it occurred to me to look at wayspots on the island because its time is slightly ahead of NZ. I got to say, if the reviewers saw this wayspot, it would have been in…
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Interesting how you mentioned this. Please have a read of one of my adventures: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/ki2rqp/mt_cloudmaker_takedown_op/ Remember that with remote areas, how prepared you are is a big part of it. One person's definition of remote might also be another person's walk in the park. Having…
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By the way, now that certain toys are more accessible, no phone reception, no problem: I enjoyed interacting with a lot of wayspots with no phone service over the holidays, now I need to source a transformer and some 12V batteries for even more fun. 😁
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These signs are usually very easy passes if the locals are reviewing, they are always placed on beach access paths which makes it useful for knowing where you can cut through to the beach from a road. Some of them may not be far apart (like 50 metres or so) but usually they'd be providing beach access from different…
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Wow, after 4 months, my friend finally got their 9km route approved. Just waiting on the 5km and 16km ones from August now...
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The reason why I personally wouldn't advocate for a Netherlands style cleanup is because there are a few that I would consider good candidates such as the one in Cape Banks near the wayspot formerly known as Shipwrecked and another I saw in voting on some island in the middle of Lake Jindabyne (didn't check if that one…
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I've been trying to get some of them removed under PRP and pedestrian access, it's not easy though, the removal request gets auto rejected most of the time nowdays (before the current system it was about 50/50). I've had success in appealing the really obvious ones after I took geotagged photos but there's just so many. I…
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A few weeks ago, at my local I noticed some of the pokestops/gyms in populated cells were "rerolled" i.e. they disappeared from PoGo and became Ingress and/or lightship only POIs then something else in the same level 17 cell became a pokestop, none of those POIs were new. This caused a few routes to be stuck in limbo and…
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We have a few places around here where there were multiple POIs live in PoGo in the same level 17 cell, sometime last week, I observed the following happening: Gym disappeared for a few days, reappeared as pokestop in the same location, during its disappearance, the POI was not even in lightship Level 17 cell with multiple…
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Well, having Niantic standing by their decision that the offending nomination should have been approved is sending a very dangerous message. How many of those not-really-a-violation-but-educational-email can you receive before you get on the abuse ladder for real? Am I going to do any reviews again? Probably not. It's…
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After getting disillusioned with routes, I decided to do one this morning on the way to work for that routes event in PoGo, but the catch was, I couldn't find the route that my friend had created. Got her to check, route still published, but it wasn't there. Weird eh, turns out what happened was when Niantic decided to…
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When I take photos, I always consider how my photos would look on all of these: PoGo photo disc PoGo detailed view (when you click on the ">" in the corner) Ingress key This means I generally take landscape photos (4:3) unless it's a large tall trail marker. I also consider how close up I want to get to the object. When…
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I'm probably going to get disagreements for saying this but low quality wayspots bother me because once someone sees something in game they'll go submit similar things because "well this other thing is in game so must be eligible." Then as pointed out above, you get areas littered with them, which is where the real problem…