Hi everyone,
here i am again to ask something about eligibility around my area.
As you can read in the title my question is: are driving school being eligible or it’s just a general business?
Whenever I am not sure about something, I go back and review the Wayfarer Criteria: Wayspot Criteria — Wayfarer Help Center
The way I read those criteria, a driving school would not meet any of them. A business that does not meet any criteria would be a generic business.
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It’s a generic business even if it’s a real school? Like, they do lessons and tests. Driving lessons never being there.
As shared by Cyndie, a place of education can be an eligible location, and many places of higher education and research meet that eligibility criteria.
At a first impression, I agree with her assessment. If you have specific details about one that you’d like to share or explain more about how it is a place for exploration beyond being a simple business, feel free to share and we might be able to help more.
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Mhh how can i explain: it’s a great place for social activity (because ofc people goes there for driving licence) especially young people (+18). They do every day lessons with personal teachers and you can do also tests with their own PCs. In the other hand not good for exploration, because it’s just a small school for driving license but it has a giant sign that identifies the school.
Personally, I would rather people going to driving school focus on driving rather than a fresh spinner, but that’s just me.
When I think of “schools” that are good places for socializing, it’s like art schools and bakeries that offer lessons, places with community classes or that you’d take a date to, less one-on-one driving instruction and the like. Can you explain why this is a great place to go to socialize?
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Essentially this. One-on-one driving lessons are far away from this place,
Dont you think people are away from this spot if they are “driving”?
This make it less likely for people to socialize. Anyway i am not convinced that its good place to socialize.
What do you mean? They don’t do practical driving lesson but theorical lessons together to be ready for official tests for driving licence.
Thats something you need to mention.
Well personally i dont think those will fit socialize category. You can try but if it kept getting rejection, perhaps its better to move on
You were kinda answering yourself on this question.
For art school, or music school, people share a habit, to study and to improve their skill. There are socializing feature on those school because you improve and have a lot of fun interaction with people who share a habit with you. Those school can be called like a conservatory.
For driving school, you don’t go there to show love for your habit, you just want to pass your driving test and call it done. I don’t think there is any social interaction on those school, because:
You don’t gather in those school to share same favorite habit
That’s probably the different.
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Generally we say educational establishments for over 18s can meet the explore criteria, so if this is a place where people can learn about driving theory, maybe attending advanced classes as well as the basics, then I believe you could make a case for this.
However, I am not expecting it to be accepted by the reviewers, I would expect it to be rejected for generic business.
I don’t see this as a categorically ineligible place, nor do I see it as a super strong example of a place to explore, but learning a new skill does link to the explore criteria, so it could be theoretically possible and I do not see any harm in trying. The reviewers will tell you what they think.
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Thats why i have doubts about that. So, ill try to see if it’s something good or not!
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OP, this is why my first comment referred you to the criteria. Agree it is not ineligible if for over 18’s, but that you would have to make a case that it meets criteria. Without a supporting statement convincing that it does meet any of the core acceptance criteria, it is unlikely to be accepted.
I referred you to the criteria link so there could be no mistake about what Niantic considers the acceptability criteria to be. Recently some posts have been derailed by comments about what constitutes criteria.
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I understand but if the criteria link doesn’t say “yes” or “no” it won’t be clear for me if im doing wrong or not. Thats why i always ask a hand to understand better everything about nominating and maybe it will help niantic for some reason.
That is a great use of the forum! Use your understanding of the criteria and check to see how other explorers feel about the point of interest.
There isn’t a list anywhere of things we must accept.
We rarely get comments directly from Niantic on these types of questions in the forum. Occasionally they will comment on a post. But anything you can say to convince reviewers that this does meet any of the stated criteria will help the nomination, whether it is reviewed by Niantic internally, or by the community.
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If the criteria doesn’t say yes or no, it means that there’s nothing wrong with submitting something you personally think is interesting, and making a case for how it links to the criteria.
There are very few things that are a 100% no -things like schools for children, fire stations, or someone’s house! Or making a fake nomination, or putting something in the wrong place. Your driving school is none of those things. So you won’t get in trouble for trying. Make a good case for it and see what happens 
The thing with submissions that aren’t typical “yes” nominations is you need to have a realistic expectation of how it will go, for example don’t expect it to be an easy acceptance first time, and do expect to need a very good nomination to have any chance to get it accepted.
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