What’s the point to discuss those power spots that are not even wayspot
Yes they are generic business but they are not not part of the wayfarer
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- Because it should be linked to wayfarer (and some actually are from Lightship)
- Because it will impact wayfarer as people see these and think they should be submitting similar things now
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Some (not many) have come from Wayfarer.
I’ve got two that are my own nominations locally that previously only appeared on Ingress.
I guess we just have lots of garbage for low density areas to try and make the Pokémon GO map look good everywhere?
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The funny thing is, technically we are the data company. Without us giving our time freely and risking bans at every turn they would actually have to employ paid employees or outsource to get the data.
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Was funny really, my area has some lightship options but none have been selected - just stuff near them ie there’s a postbox in lightship but they chose a parcel drop off a few doors down, and there’s a nature reserve sign and a wooden totem both in lightship but they chose someone’s house nearby instead
Would love to know the reasoning… maybe those lightship ones will become spots in future
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Some are link to lightship map: ok great, those are eligible in wayfarer inclusion rule
Some are not wayspot: not a wayfarer issue. In the meantime can you find a “nomination a power spot” button in Pokemon Go? I don’t want to discuss to deep in a Pokemon Go exceptional topic.
I think we will be discussing the effects of this PoGo related topic for a long time - because it will impact wayfarer even though it is outside of wayfarer
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Not bothered to be honest. The ones close to me at the moment actually fill gaps where there is nothing available and because of cell rules/chances of getting anything approved, will probably never get anything. Non of them are SFPRP or schools so I’m actually going to enjoy them while they last since I’ve been waiting almost 4 months for a decision on my latest submission and knowing this are (doesn’t have a coordinated group approving wayspots) it will get rejected for some dumb reasons because others believe it will help their submissions get approved faster.
Ya, none of it makes much sense. I was travelling yesterday and thanks to a powerspot, I now know where the owner of a business in a city over 50kms away lives. I’m guessing the registration was set at their home address which is common for businesses here. Even the name on the power spot has the actual address of the business on it. If you search it, it will bring you to where the actual business is located as the top result.
To be honest, the ones we have don’t bother me to much.they are generic businesses but they fill a need in the game map here. One of the tyre places isn’t great but it is actually part of a bigger place called the auto point which has a busy 24 hour filling station that serves good food, has outdoor seating, serves ice-cream and is always used as a meeting point for workers on their breaks and car enthusiasts in the evenings. It would be a great place to socialise as it is already used for that purpose but if I entered it as a submission it would probably be rejected because of people take on a great place to socialise.
I can only see one that doesn’t correspond to that but all the rest do exactly.
Niantic are partnered with Overture now?
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I’ve been looking through my local area on Overture at the businesses that jump out as being very wrong (but are not as far as I know used as Power Spots yet).
Almost all are based on the data source “meta” in the Overture map. Having looked at quite a few, I’m starting to suspect this could be something slightly more sinister than a business owner setting their home address as the registered address or something. I suspect that Facebook might do something when someone sets up a business page that if they don’t specify a street address there is some record taken possibly from their IP address, or Phone GPS as a placeholder address. (Or possibly if they have their own address entered on Facebook it defaults to that).
The reason I think it is something based on IP/GPS is I’ve found some that have random incorrect locations that aren’t residential, but are things like university campuses, which would tie in with people creating a Facebook page for something in a random place that is not recorded otherwise on their Facebook information.
EDIT: The worst one I’ve seen so far is one for supported housing for offenders which is at a residential address. I suspect this is the residential address of the person who created the Facebook page, rather than one of their housing units. But either way the implication in the database, and if it were ever to be a Power Spot is this location is housing for offenders.
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True, to be honest it will really help out smaller towns and villages,once it’s not schools, SFPRP, or blocking an emergency service or in an obviously dangerous place they have really made the map interesting.
The generic business one really kills the game for small areas because the local shop could and normally Is a great place to socialise in these areas but, 9/10 times is going to be rejected if submitted.
Maybe (but I doubt it) it will be a wake-up call on balance to make the game map more interesting and fun. I look at it like a snake and ladders board, if you are missing the snakes and ladders because they are in ineligible places it kind of takes the fun out of the game.
Obviously I can’t see it happening but one can dream.
It would be great to have a local curators position so that someone in a local community could use the odd generic business or something else that wouldn’t be normally acceptable to make broader game map.
Obviously still keeping the usual redlines of schools, blocking emergency service and SFPRP excluded.
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Lol, let’s hope they aren’t using that for data or you will soon have a lot worse “Businesses” popping up on the map…new police strategy will be playing pogo to find the bad guys.
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A friend found one named “Jenn’s House”
Awesome stuff
Jenn is a pillar of the community, They are a person of significance around those parts and will soon have a memorial bench dedicated to their significance.
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Yeah, I don’t disagree with this in principle. I think a real missed opportunity for Niantic here is to have introduced a lower tier of wayspot. Either in terms of encouraging submissions, or perhaps more practically running an Overpass Turbo query on Openstreetmap for all businesses meeting certain tags.
For example, if they’d scraped OSM for every Cafe they’d be almost guaranteed to have a very low number of problem spots. We can all imagine a bunch of other tags that may not be quality wayspots, but would likely just fall down on the “distinctiveness” part of the criteria.
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Yeah absolutely
I would have been up for submitting a bunch of safe real current places like businesses that are absolutely appropriate for people to visit but just don’t meet exercise/socialise/explore critieria
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Yes, I agree with you. If you ask people in the game community, a lot feels overlooked, more feel Wayfarer is elitetist…(Then they meet me and realise how wrong they are. )
But seriously that is the impression a lot of players have and why they don’t bother interacting. I would love to see they community of all games associated with wayfarer growing to what they once were, but, due to a lot of reasons the community has been deteriorating over the past number of years.
I’d love to see it back somewhat close to what it once was with scores of players meeting up for raiding and hunting. My local city group has. Good following with probably close to 100+ regulars that do turn out for bigger events, smaller towns and villages have been destroyed at local level though. It is extremely hard to get people to come out. We have about 7 regulars in my area but you might get 3 one day, then 5 the next then nobody for smaller meet-up.
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I’d add a category for a great place to be Local. Because this is lost on a lot of reviewers not from certain areas. The estate signs one would fall I to that category as it is an awkward one.
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