Thank you for helping us welcome Scaniverse to the Niantic family. In an effort to help our Wayfarer community, we’ll be leveraging this cutting-edge technology and start accepting links to unlisted or public gaussian splats as evidence (supporting statements) for locations takedown reports and contributions appeals.
As many of you know, it can be a huge pain point in areas where Google Street view is not up to date or satellite view isn’t sufficient. Adding an unlisted or public splat link can help our team better assess your report or appeal.
How to add a splat link:
You will first want to download Niantic Scaniverse and log in with your Scaniverse account or create one. A Niantic ID will be required if you’re posting to the map (public splat).
Go to the location you wish to include in your appeal or report
Open Scaniverse and create a Splat
Scan the area and process the splat (enhancing is optional but encouraged)
Once processed, you can find it in your Library
Click the Library icon on the bottom leftPreformatted text
Select the gaussian splat you wish to use
Click on the Share button on the bottom right
Select the Share Link option (for unlisted posting) or Go to Map Post (for public) and copy the link
Please note, adding a link to an unlisted or public gaussian splats is not the only form of evidence now accepted. You can still submit other forms of evidence you would have previously. In order to have a gaussian splat support your appeal or report, it must be a Scaniverse link. Doing a scan from within Pokémon GO or Ingress will not and cannot be used to remove or appeal Wayspots.
@NianticTintino DUDE!! I swear @BlameJamal and I were discussing using gaussian splats for Wayfarer to help prove Wayspots exist/don’t exist when we recorded this morning! Your ears must have been burning!
Thanks for sharing the video and great idea on the nomination supporting statement, this is definitely where we’re heading to. But we’re not pushing for that just yet as currently Scaniverse splats (even unlisted) are associated with the user profile.
As submissions are supposed to be anonymous we cannot allow reviewers to be influenced by the submitter’s identity and the submitter to divulge it.
I see these as the equivalent of photospheres, which I have missed. And it was always the case with photospheres that you could potentially see who had made them, but there was the option to hide that info. But at times it did reveal who had made the nomination.
So it will good if from the start there is a way to provide a link that can be used that won’t give the makers name along with specific instructions as what to do if you are going to do that.
I would like scanners to also still be able to publish to a map where their name can be seen, as many will want that.
I wandered over to look at some of @BlameJamal on the map.
There are also some that I think (and I really don’t know what I am talking about are sourced from previous scans from another source that were good enough.
I did not WANT to add splats to my reports. I wanted to add PHOTOS. I sent my sons into the men’s rooms to take photos of the murals. I would not ask them to put splats there.
This is an alternative for when it is suitable. So in the case you outline a splat would not be suitable or even beneficial.
I am going back to the woods this weekend to do one that will not only show the old welcome sign has gone but that an new object close to it is present. It is well away from any streetview and the trees also hide the location so this will in this instance be a useful additional way of showing the current situation as well as my ordinary photo.
Over time what has been asked for and responded to have been a greater range of ways for people to provide the extra information that is needed. Who knows what might be around the corner
I have yet to see any sign of the Wayfarer Team wanting to reduce to the options, it really is not in their best interests.
Nice option. Maybe if we don’t want to include splats, we could provide a link to a photo, or even a website. I didn’t think about the comment box being used in this way, but the more info received, the more likely we don’t have to come here to the forums to appeal removal requests.
Yeah, I think @NianticTintino could have explained the comment box option more like this than focusing so much on splats. Not everyone is going to use Scaniverse (I’m not really interested in it right now, plus I’m an Android user), but a link to a photo showing the current area or even a short video can be helpful.
We’ve been wondering about what the comment box in PoGo removal reports was to be used for fully. If I would have known this, the 2 Wayspots I requested and had rejected at a cemetery may have gotten removed if I provided the link to its website (not really the best place to be taking photos while people are mourning).
Forget about all the lack of communication. Being directly ignored and leaving Ambassadors to do their dirty work. Closing down of the Ingress forums. Brazil, Turkey, India, the crass, cheap addition of Powerspots. The mess of the criteria that goes unanswered for weeks on here when people ask a simple question.
The list goes on and on and on but we want something from you again.
are sourced from previous scans from another source that were good enough.