Okay now I think more than ever it is an issue from two different employees at Niantic. In the morning nearly all my nominations got accepted and now in the afternoon everything is rejected. That is very frustrating.
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This one got accepted in the morning by the Niantic team
Wayspot Submission for GrĂ€fenbergbahn-Weg - Symbol fĂŒr Wanderer
Eckental BY
Accepted
2025-06-23
Description
Der GrĂ€fenbergbahn-Weg ist nach dem gleichnamigen Verkehrsmittel im Raum nördlich von NĂŒrnberg benannt. Die offizielle Weg-Nummer ist 206 bei einer GesamtlĂ€nge von 19,7 km.
Location
BrĂŒhlstraĂe 4, 90542 Eckental, Deutschland
Supplemental Information
GrÀfenbergbahn-Weg Weg-Nr.206
And this one got rejected in the afternoon by the Niantic team
Wayspot Submission for GrĂ€fenbergbahn-Weg - In der RosenstraĂe
Eckental BY
Not Accepted
2025-06-23
Reviewers provided these top reasons for not accepting this submission:
- The submission lacks uniqueness or historical and cultural meaning
The real-world location of the nomination appears to represent a generic store or restaurant
Description
Der GrĂ€fenbergbahn-Weg ist nach dem gleichnamigen Verkehrsmittel im Raum nördlich von NĂŒrnberg benannt. Die offizielle Weg-Nummer ist 206 bei einer GesamtlĂ€nge von 19,7 km.
Location
RosenstraĂe 7, 90542 Eckental, Deutschland
Supplemental Information
GrÀfenbergbahn-Weg Weg-Nr.206
I donât get many submissions reviewed by Niantic. Are you sure these are not community reviews (the email says âthe communityâ vs âour teamâ)?
It was both âour teamâ. I live in a rural area that is why I often get Niantic review.
Just checking 
I canât do anything apart from sympathise with your frustration.
OpenStreetMap can often be a good place to highlight named walking trails, e.g. Relation: âȘMilton Keynes Boundary Walk⏠(âȘ15093867âŹ) | OpenStreetMap - not every trail is on OSM, but usually there will be a website confirming the route.
As for location, about a 200 meter minimum spacing is a good suggestion. There was a stretch I did recently where the trailmarkers were weirdly over-provisioned, so I submitted alternate ones. Itâs great to be able to see the trail on your scanner which seems to have a range of around 450 metres in most games. Any âdecision pointâ is good IMO, even if itâs close to an existing one.
Thank you I appreciate that 
A lot of people (based on what I see in review), including myself, try for every trail marker regardless of spacing.
For example, this map of L14 cells spans, I think, about 1km north to south. Green are accepted submissions, blue is pending. Every one of these could be argued as a decision point, and all are markers for one or two named trails.
Before these submissions, this area of 6 L14 cells had around 5 wayspots, with nothing in the cells to the east or west, so I didnât feel it would be possible to add too many.
Thats fine if you choose this as a guide for your submissions for whatever reason⊠but donât for the ones you review.
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If itâs a repeater/confirmation marker rather than one at a decision point, and it is very close to a similar marker that Iâm likely to vote to reject as being not distinct.
Sorry for the late answer.
Yes, youâre right, the â200 meter ruleâ is more of a rule of thumb, or a preference, and i actually never saw the actual Niantic post stating this, just got told about it here in the forums.
Anyways, I think its just a good practice to not spam those markers too much. Its just my personal preference, and I doubt Niantic would ban for that (wich is again something i ASSUME, not something i know). Better saver then sorry. Its very rare that you even have enough markers to break this rule anyways.
So that one can be ignored, its just something I got from my browsing through the forums and something i myself consider a good practice to not spam the map with POI too much when it comes to hike trails. Also a thing to keep in mind: having multiple markers in a single cell every time over the stretch of a hike trail will eventually clog the voting queue, so maybe not overdoing it also helps to get trailmarkers through faster.
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I also live in an area that has an abundance of trail markers. Itâs a trail markers paradise. Still, I donât submit every trail marker thatâs out there. Thatâs my personal choice and shouldnât influence reviewers, and also shouldnât influence people submitting in quantity. Thereâs Niantics A-Z out there and thatâs all we need.
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