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I really hope these criteria clarifications are done right. That you listen to the Ambassadors, and that those clarifications are in line with Niantic's mission statement and the ideas behind the 3.1 criteria refresh. Lately it feels like the Wayfarer team has been reading their criteria from a scroll that was found in a…
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It is not about the marker, it is about what it represents. A section of a trail. It is a section of a trail that is being nominated. Many park signs are generic. You wouldn't (or shouldn't) reject a park because the sign is generic.
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You are not the first one to misread: open to the residents or the general public as open to the residents of the general public These area's appear to be open to the residents. That is enough. It doesn't have to be open to the general public.
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It doesn't matter how long it has been there, or that it can be seen from and even touched from the street. If it is on a private residential property, even when attached to the outside wall or fence of a property, it meets the rejection and removal criterion "Ineligible location". Both of these Wayspots appear to be…
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Send themselves an educational email? 🤷
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Another opportunity for Niantic to regain a little bit of confidence from the community. These should all be restored. And the people who requested these removals have earned their 30 day vacation.
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Clearly a great place to exercise. Clearly exists at this location. Clearly has safe pedestrian access. Good title. Good description. Easy decision. This must be restored. Let's see if the Wayfarer team has learned something from their debacle last week.
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@Hosette-ING, you haven't been paying attention, have you? This isn't the first thread about this topic recently. There is some major abuse going on in the Netherlands and Belgium with Wayspot removal requests that are clearly done by Ingress players, with the sole purpose of disadvantaging the other team. They aren't even…
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It is possible that Niantic imports stops from some other database, but that is very unlikely. Usually it is only through nominations. You can use that gym as both the start point and end point of the same route. You can create a loop.
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In other words: You removed a bunch of legitimate wayspots and sent warnings and maybe even bans to innocent players who were only following the criteria. Is there anyone left on the Wayfarer team with just a slight understanding of the criteria?
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This is by far the worst comment ever made by someone of the Wayfarer team. There isn't even any competition. How can anyone ever take anything you say seriously after this? You don't understand that there is more than one eligibility criterion. Not everything must be a great place to explore. It doesn't matter what the…
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It doesn't even apply to trail markers. Trail markers are objects that placemark a section of a trail, and a section of a trail can never be generic/mass-produced. They are all unique. They may know their own rules, but they surely do not understand them. The community and the ambassadors have been raising this issue for…
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Except that the criteria don't say there needs to be a sidewalk. That is you projecting your interpretation of the criteria onto Niantic. The criteria only say safe pedestrian access. What that means depends on where you are, and is very hard to evaluate in areas you aren't familiar with.
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I did not say you were. I said the exact opposite. I said you never tried. My problem is with your sentence "Unfortunately, stickers can be removed and are therefore not as permanent as the sign of the same trail.". You state that as if it is a fact, which it isn't. Had you said "Unfortunately, people who are unfamiliar…
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Have you ever tried removing one? Don't do it. It is considered vandalism. But they don't come of easily. And in case where one is removed or damaged, contacting the people responsible for the trail will get the sticker replaced faster than reporting it to Niantic will get the wayspot removed. Don't talk confidently about…
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While this is certainly not a bad change, I'd rather they invest the extra resources in educating people, so that appeals will be less needed. And more communication in the forums would be nice too.
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This is the kind of abuse we have been dealing with since the OPR days. These people don't care about the criteria. They don't dislike trailmarkers because they are "low quality". They dislike trailmarkers because they are spread all over the place, and usually hard to reach by car, or hard to park next to. That is how…
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I admit that I am not from Denmark, so my perception might be wrong, but it appears to me that the sign is on a sidewalk, and there appears to be a bike lane there as well (but that might be train tracks as well). The green sign with the number 5 on it appears to be a bus stop. A place that is supposed to have safe…
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Yes
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It is attached to the fence of a single family private residential property. Objects attached to the wall or fence of a single family private residential property are still considered to be on the property, even if it can be accessed without trespassing. This was a correct removal.
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For years, our countries have been plagued with abusive rejections. Never has Niantic ever helped us to battle this abuse. It took years of hard work by the community to finally overcome the abusers and have some sort of a normal Wayfarer experience. The abusers went into hiding and we didn't hear for them for a couple of…
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Within 40 meters is only a removal criterion if the removal was requested by a home owner, not by a community member. A trail marker is an object that placemarks an area. You should not weigh the criteria against a placemark, but against what it placemarks. A node of a walking trail is unique as it is the starting and…
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What a terrible decision! The person who reviewed this clearly does not understand the concept of an object that placemarks an area. This is a great wayspot and should be reinstated. This is a nomination for a walking trail, and the marker is used as a placemark for that walking trail. The generic/mass-produced criterion…
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I doubt you will get an answer. But there are 3 reasons I can think of. It was removed at the request of someone living nearby (within 40m). Niantic used to be (or still is) obligated to remove wayspots at the request of homeowners that live within 40m of a wayspot is the USA, and they have probably turned that into a…
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I don't believe it was The Pokémon Company that decided on 1 wayspot for every level 17 S2 cell. And I also don't believe that The Pokémon Company will take the initiative to change that. I do believe that it is possible that they have to approve it if Niantic ever wants to change it. But I doubt The Pokémon Company has…
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I can see why The Pokémon Company would care about what hat Pikachu wears every event. I can't see why they would care about inclusion rules. Don't spread misinformation.
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This is very frustrating. Yet another wayspot removed and not reinstated for no apparent reason. This needs to be cleared out. Why was this wayspot removed and why won't it be reinstated? A simple Google search gives you plenty of evidence that the route is a great place to explore and to exercise. This is from Wikipedia:…
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Interesting. So it is part of a trail. Your wayspot doesn't reflect that however. Your title is very generic. It should reflect that you are nominating a section of a trail. "Berner Wanderweg" just tells me that the nomination is for a path that happened to be located in Bern. The marker itself also doesn't really reflect…
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The fact that the sign says Wanderweg clearly indicates that this location has safe pedestrian access. The sign was clearly installed by the local authority, so it is not associated with the private residential property located behind it. I don't see it meet any other rejection criteria either. About it being mass…
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No, I object to the opposite. It shouldn't matter what the mark is on, only what it's purpose is. A mark painted on a tree is just as good as a metal sign. Nowhere in the criteria does it suggest there is a difference. It is not the tree that is being nominated, it is a trail marker, that happens to be painted on a tree.…