If you are nominating Wayspots, you need to be cognizant of Niantic's Machine Learning program. We call her Emily, and she is a bot that attempts to weed-out nominations that are similar to those tha… (View Post)

I think the part that irks me is that I see no reason why Niantic's games cannot refer to Wayspots universally. I've read that the designers believe it would 'destroy immersion' to refer to Wayfarer,… (View Post)

Niantic's Pokemon Go group purchased a trove of geolocation data from FourSquare. You can find discussion about it elsewhere on this site. This data contains many mislocated generic businesses with i… (View Post)

I think the Appeals reviewers are lost in the weeds. There seems to be consensus that certain banners are temporary objects. This would include 'Grand Opening', local celebration, etc. By extension, … (View Post)

I mean it would seem everyone has misjudged what the word 'bar' means in Poland. I don't know if the nomination was upgraded and reviewed by all of Western Europe, slow-tracked through a smaller regi… (View Post)