Overture data is sourced from the best open map data sources and conflated into a single dataset. The data comes from community-built data, including OpenStreetMap, AI-derived data from satellite/aerial imagery, authoritative data delivered by governments, and newly open commercial data sources. The data then goes through validation and quality checks to ensure that it is safe for use. The ongoing challenge remains maintaining and adding to data to reflect changes. To that end, Overture is fostering a broad collaboration to build and maintain an up-to-date, comprehensive database.
2] The new Overture points arenāt in Lightship and arenāt ingress portals, poke gyms, or anything PvP-related, so thereās no big reason to go there. If they were inaccessible wayspots, then yeah, thatād be a bigger deal.
3] Since Overture points arenāt added to Lightship, they donāt mess with Wayfarer. Players can still submit wayspots in those areas. Compare that to the Foursquare imports in Turkey, India, and Brazil - those really salted the ground for Wayfarer.
4] As for quality, are local businesses from the Overture map really worse than memorial trees, benches, random signs, or little free libraries people build as home stops? Both work fine for gathering resources, if you ask me.
I requested a removal of a Power Spot at where a pizza place used to be. Itās been closed for a couple of years, torn down, and replaced with a self-serve car wash. Itās still showing up from time to time as a Power Spot.
Also, I have a feeling that PoGo players, especially game ambos, will start to care about where Power Spots are placed, especially if there are monthly events that happen there. Today is Falinks Raid Day, and my area ambo has an event going on downtown, going from gym to gym to battle. Community Days are often held at the large park downtown.
Both these areas have very few Power Spots, yet there are plenty of unused Wayspots that could be used as Power Spots in these areas, as well as good local businesses. If game ambos have an issue with having to find new locations to do Max Battles, especially if there are Max Battle events and the places with the most Power Spots tell them they canāt have their event there, that could be a issue.
They may not be added to the Lightship map but players still interact with them in the same was as they would a stop or gym.
Why should I reject something on private property, a school or in a dangerous area if Niantic are happy to have players interact with Powerspots at those locations?
Why should I apply the criteria of something being in the correct location or having a good description and/or picture if Niantic are not interested in that?
Niantic seem cool with power spots in the middle of roads too. Guess we dont need safe pedestrian access anymore
As far as I can tell, nothing I reported for either being in the middle of a road or being at someoneās house has been removed - hard to tell when they disappear anyway but 1 has been there each day so far
And yet today Ive submitted some carved stonework at an old house which is now apartments and you bet thatll be rejected for private residential property
Power Spots are to last for 2 days, 48 hours; this is what the counter is for on them. They disappear at 4:59am local time, and at 5am new ones will replace the ones that have disappeared. However, depending on the location, some Power Spots that expire just get added back at 5am. Thatās what Iāve noticed with the ones in my area.
Many of the points on Overture maps are of surprisingly low quality, but even worse is the accuracy of the location information.
I have always considered Foursquareās location data to be the least accurate. However, Overture maps are far worse than this.
Half the time, the PINs were placed about 500 meters off, and the worst ones were in another town, about 2 km off.
Also, when we looked at what was shown as a power spot, the rest of the things are not POIs, nor are they power spots.
They are just local business offices (not sales outlets) or factories (cannot be toured), and duplicates of existing PokeStops and Pokemon gyms that are live a few hundred meters apart.
Lightship and Wayfarer team staff should edit this map daily to make it worthy of use.
In the past, Niantic has been accused of free-riding on the part of Open Street Map.
And like OSM, the Overture maps is open data and needs to be edited by those who sponsor it.
Just as the correct locations are populated by Wayfarerās database, they should be used.
LOL even better, that building is now a power spot - clearly one of the apartments houses a business owner. I donāt know that this will help my case though
The reporting bad ones is getting out of hand in some communities where there are multiple groups that are doing things to be petty to other groups. It was already a thing were legitimate POIs were being reported by entire groups just to be petty to another group. It seems like these power spots are much easier to get removed and have already started feuds in local communities. It also seems some people are trying to abuse the system and get one as close to themselves as possible as they have seen if they get existing ones removed, new ones post up in the area to take their place. This system needs paused, reset, and reworked before starting it back.
I have a good experience with reporting a route. They came back to me in the chat and deleted it. Fast and clean.
I donāt think that we have to maintain them. The given tools arenāt ready for that.
You canāt f.e. report the generic business or do location edits.
As long as it is so hard to clean that up, I donāt think weāre asked to do that
But who I am
I also reported 1 route, early on, and it was removed. It looked like someone had tied their phone to their cat to record it - it was just loops and squiggles across a load of gardens
One of the max spots I reported which had disappeared is back today, so they arenāt necessarily removed even if they disappeared. They probably just ran down their timer and naturally vanished. I agree itās not really our job to fix this- if they wanted our help they would have asked
From what I observe around me there is a pattern emerging.
I have 1 level 14 cell where there appears to be only 2 nodes that can activate as powerspots and these are constantly refreshing. So it gives the appearance of always available although they are on 2 day cycles.
In another Level 14 cell there are more nodes that can be activated. So far 5, all wayspots, are powerspots. I just have to wait and see tomorrow what appears next but it could take quite a few days to cycle through the nodes in that cell.
So I would allow some time to see how many nodes are potentially active in any one cell. If you see a case that clearly needs to be reported then you have a relatively narrow window of 2 days to report and you might have to wait some time at the moment to see if it has been actioned.
So we are I think in an observation phase and be prepared as it might take time to shake out.
