Until Machine Learning, Appeals staff, and reviewers are all solidly on the same page, we will continue facing the possibility of possessing decent photos for a distant nomination that we do not expe… (View Post)

Sometimes a wayspot is accepted with a plain-vanilla photo like the sign for a church. The sign proves to reviewers that the church is what the nominator says it is, but is not particularly interesti… (View Post)

I mostly agree, IF the machine were well-behaved. Can you imagine your frustration when the system won't allow you to use the correct name, and Emily interprets a bird-dropping seen on StreetView as … (View Post)

From time to time, somebody at Niantic has conducted a survey about our Wayfarer experience. I recall once or twice seeing a question which required ranking the relative significance of various tasks… (View Post)

This is a weird aspect of Wayfaring. At least for me. Unique or special objects, locations and ideas are all potentially eligible. Beautiful imagery seems to be at the apex of Wayfarer nominations. P… (View Post)