I’m not challenging my candidacy. The issue is the rules themselves. They’re based on opinions; using terms like “Great” makes everything subjective.
How can a small-town place meet the criteria of being a ‘great’ meeting spot?
It’s not fair, and compare this situation to a post office in a dying village. It’s accepted by default.
There’s a clear inconsistency.
In a small town, it is easier to convince that the ONLY coffee shop is a GREAT destination. The clarification here even points this out:
I understand your point about emphasizing the positives of some place, but I think you’re missing mine.
I disagree that some places need absolutely to prove they’re ‘great’ while others don’t.
And furthermore, it’s harder for small towns to get newspaper articles or TV coverage to prove anything
i am not missing your point. i get that you want blanket eligibility for some points of interest. nothing has blanket eligibility.
and even things that are eligible must convince that they are acceptable to be included as a wayspot.
if you are unable to convince the general reviewing population that this should be a wayspot, that is what appeals are for. you get 2 appeals, each on a 20 day counter before you can use them again. they allow you to make your case directly to a human being who works for niantic.
you are missing MY point that your nomination was originally rejected by niantic’s ML model. i made suggestions how to improve the nomination to get it past that hurdle. you can ignore my suggestions if you like.
Niantic originally seeded their database in 2002ish with open source (free) datapoints from https://www.hmdb.org/ (historical marker database) and post offices (USPS has a database; I’ll bet other countries too). Post offices meant that every little town would automatically have a least one wayspot. (I don’t see a public interface with this database, but I have used it in my job before.)
Niantic has said that post offices qualify because for hundreds of years they were the place people got news and socialized with faraway friends.
Yes, I saw the suggestion about taking the photo to avoid my reflection and less concrete. That’s a good idea. I realize that not every coffee shop is eligible. I read the criteria. If I think that I can sell this as a popular hangout where people can socialize after eating there or the coffee is that good (difficult for one that doesn’t drink coffee like me to decide), I will try to nominate again focusing on the eligible aspects. Until then, I really won’t know. That might be in February. I have a tendency to walk the other direction most of the time. If you want me to see a reply, you will have to use type @1Todoelmundo. I stopped actively following this topic.