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@TWVer-ING As someone who has owned homes in five different cities and three different states in the US I can tell you that it varies a lot (no pun intended). I also never said that Niantic said that private property extends to the street... I've said that their interest is not creating a situation where homeowners would…
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@XxNFaexX-PGO "False wayspots are avoided"? Pardon me for a moment while I roll on the floor laughing. In some areas Niantic games are polluted with false wayspots... I recently helped uncover dozens of them in an area of about one square mile. They were really high-quality fakes, though, enough that one or two of them…
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@TWVer-ING The legal dispute in question was whether the owners were responsible for something on the other side of the sidewalk. They claimed they weren't, and lost. The city brought out the map of property lines and they extended to the street. Everything has the potential to be a nuisance for someone, but there's a…
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I understand your frustration. The reference answer is that you're submitting it for possible inclusion in any Niantic game, not necessarily the ones you're submitting it for. The pragmatic answer is that in areas that are already wayspot-dense it's really hard to get things into PoGo and moderately hard into Ingress. In…
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The review process has basically been the same since before Pokemon Go got the ability to submit wayspots. Niantic has added an appeals process and they have some AI that filters out low-quality candidates (with some false positives) without them going to reviewers. Are you talking about any specific changes?
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@TWVer-ING The home I grew up in had a sidewalk and a patch of grass outside of the sidewalk. I can tell you with absolute certainty that the grass past the sidewalk was legally part of the property, as one of my neighbors was engaged in a legal dispute with the city over exactly that point. There is not one consistent…
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@rufoushumming-PGO I would call playground/playset a distinction without a difference. It's hard to imagine that any game is going to care about the difference.
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@XxNFaexX-PGO What are your doubts?
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I don't think the question is whether a school might have some students who are under 18... it's whether the school is specifically for the equivalent of what the US calls K-12, which is almost exclusively people who are under 18. A university doesn't become K-12 because one precocious 13-year-old is doing her undergrad in…
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It's easy to do your homework before throwing allegations. The Michael Griffith Education Center is on the campus of Cardiff University and is part of the medical school. Their website describes it as "A great venue for formal learning as well as a host of other events. The large lecture theatre and multiple seminar rooms…
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Would a random person know from the information in your submission that it was not K-12? @MargariteDVille-ING There's "Other Rejection Criterion" in one of the screenshots. As you and I both know that's generally the major reason.
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Honestly, I wouldn't overthink it. I don't think these classifications make much difference to current Niantic games although they would be relevant if Niantic ever did an American football or European football/American soccer game akin to NBA All-World.
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@Leedle95-PGO Here's one reference that I found via a quick search. In past versions of Niantic's online documentation bars were explicitly listed as being acceptable: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/comment/10524/#Comment_10524 Side note: You can use http://hosette.com/wayfarer to search this forum,…
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Niantic doesn't tell us. All they have told us is that the number varies based on multiple factors and one of the factors is the reviewer rating of the people reviewing. Your vote counts for more the higher you rating is on the poor/fair/good/great scale.
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Niantic does not expect reviewers to know exactly where the property line is in every municipality, and judging via a millimeter-precise measurement of the line is irrelevant to their goals. Early on after PoGo was released Niantic was sued by some homeowners for creating a nuisance. [insert handwaving about the exact…
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@Leedle95-PGO Niantic has been very clear over the years that bars are typically eligible as great places to socialize. Liquor stores are not, and st_r_i_p clubs not.
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@Nb3LA-PGO Some feedback? Your suppporting information should help reviewers understand your candidate. I can't tell what your supporting photo is but it sort of looks like you just took a picture of the sidewalk next to the candidate without the candidate itself in it. The most common use of the supporting photo is to…
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I know of two ways that can happen. One is that it was a Niantic import, such as one of the original Ingress ones from many years ago. The other is that the image was reported as a third-party photo and removed by Niantic. There may be other ways.
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@brettd1981-PGO It's important to make your submissions "look good" to reviewers... think of your submission as a tiny marketing brochure for the wayspot candidate. Those weird photo angles and for the first one having the candidate off-center to the left is what earned you a Low Quality Photo rejection. Read this for more…
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It looks like it's right in front of someone's house, in which case it wouldn't be eligible.
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I completely agree! I've come across areas that were filled with fakes while reviewing. Recently I discovered one that was very close to me. Some people documented each and every one of the fakes in person and submitted them in bulk to Niantic, complete with photographic evidence to support their case. Niantic has removed…
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@Nb3LA-PGO We absolutely understand your disappointment!
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It's entirely possible that someone had submitted it before you but it hadn't yet been approved. There's no way for Niantic to reasonably show those things during the submission workflow.
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@DvlDAB-PGO To the best of my knowledge all of the Photoshopped fakes that you saw on Bay Farm Island are now gone.
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You didn't show us what you submitted but there's a wayspot there named Milorg-hula. https://intel.ingress.com/?pll=59.925501,11.02842 There's also one a bit south named Sagendammen.
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Have you started here? https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/eligibility
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The problem of fakes has gotten completely out of hand.
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There are two different categories of "meets no criteria", and they get handled the same way although they probably shouldn't. The first category is something that is total garbage and should never have been accepted, like a dog waste station. If I was king of the universe I would declare that these things should be…
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Check out this pinned post: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/41750/my-wayspot-nomination-was-accepted-but-does-not-appear-in-my-game-s-where-did-it-go Different games have different inclusion rules, and no there probably isn't a way to get the wayspot into PoGo.
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Is your complaint that the submission was rejected, or that one of the rejection reasons given didn't make sense? If it's just the rejection reason then I can offer some advice. Rejection reasons often contain things that don't completely make sense even when the rejection itself is valid. Sometimes it might be as simple…