I submitted a gym nomination and it was approved but I don’t see the gym yet.
When do you think it will appear?
Thank you for your help.
Here is the name of the gym:
“StoneCreek East Landmark in GreenValley“
Here is a snippet from the email sent by the team:
Dear FremontBozo,
Thank you for your Wayspot nomination appeal for StoneCreek East Landmark on Jun 6, 2026.
Congratulations, Niantic has decided that your nomination should be added as a Wayspot. Keep in mind that any changes based on this decision can take up to 48 hours to be reflected in Niantic products that will use this Wayspot.
As this snippet says, it can take up to 48 hours to be reflected in Niantic products that will use this wayspot. It is not guaranteed that a specific game will use a wayspot submission, as each game has its own rules when it comes to wayspot density. If it has been longer than 48 hours since it was accepted and it hasn’t appeared in the daily syncs since then, it likely is being blocked from appearing in game.
The Pokémon Go submission process can be a bit misleading as it uses game specific terminology. You are not submitting a Pokéstop for Pokémon Go (and certainly not a Gym - those have their own rules for when it comes to how they populate in game), but rather a wayspot for the Wayfarer database, that has the potential to be used in various different products and services, with Pokémon Go being just one of those.
This post explains a bit more about the most common reason that wayspots aren’t able to become Pokéstops:
Pokémon Go Hub has a comprehensive guide to S2 cells which you can search the internet for, and that will be able to teach you a bit more about gym creation.
Regarding your nomination, if you want someone to check if it’s not showing due to the density rules, it would help if you could provide the GPS coordinates of it.
It is indeed the fact that the L17 S2 cell is already occupied by a Wayspot for the neighborhood sign on the opposite side of the road here.
I don’t believe that either of these meet criteria as a great place for exercise, exploration, or being social, and certainly not two signs marking the same entrance. Niantic needs to make a clarification on these.
I was gonna say, even if signs like this were eligible, I’m very surprised the second one got accepted, as they’re clearly a pair, and so personally, I would feel like they should have one wayspot to represent the pair of them (again, if they were actually eligible of course).
And there is another one of these signs at a different entrance as being a marker for the trail and the community. One should have been enough if any were going to be accepted.
It is a great place for exercise given running trails adjacent to the stop. The trails are used by runners and even horses in the area. The trails also used by the city for running events and all.
The sign itself is not a great place for exercise and does not assist with exercise in any way whatsoever. It is not eligible under the exercise criteria, which leaves only Social and Exploration.
The Wayspot exists, even if you don’t see it in game. Niantic can and does remove ineligible Wayspots whether they are live in Pokemon Go or not. The point here is that Niantic does not appear to consider these to meet removal criteria, even though we have seen appeals rejected for simply being neighborhood signs. Removal criteria is internal, and they don’t tell us exactly what it is.
Trails are indeed a great places for exercise and exploration.
They do need to be a set trail eg a name or number tgat defines a set route as it is the trail and not the markers that are eligible.
Presumably the Stonecreek trail has markers along its route at decision points and a website to describe the trail. I would normally expect the start of a trail to show the direction.
Are there more trail markers as these could potentially be eligible?
Be perfectly honest. How many times have you ever asked your friend to meet and hang out at the neighborhood sign - out there in full sunlight with nothing to do? I’m not talking about meeting there because you want to spin the pokestop. I mean if Pokemon GO never existed, would you hang out to be social at this sign? Would this be the place your friends meet up to share all the hottest gossip? Would they pack a picnic and sit for a spell to catch up?
I have NEVER, in my 53 years on this planet, seen people hanging out at a neighborhood sign to be social.
Sure … the stop(s) help with routes in our area and so we hike on the paths right next to the signage. Any stop, for any landmark welcome. It’s also a landmark because the region/area is called StoneCreek.
I think the part that you are missing is that the actual object of the waypoint must meet criteria. It doesn’t matter what it is close to or that you “could” but that the object encourages either Exercise, Socialise or Explore.
I “could” do any of them on the pavement (side walk) outside my house but that does not make it eligible.
I can’t nominate it as Social because there is a park at the end of the road etc.
Mind you, the point is mute as it has been accepted in to the Wayfarer Database but won’t be used in Pokemon Go anyway…
