Good morning, I just made these two paintings outside my property to help the local community have some pokestops, does these two look good enough? I did not had another paint colors so I tried to make something with a meaning with what I had, if someone have any suggestions let me know please, thank you!
Welcome!
You should have a look at this clarification on the difference between street art and vandalism. I feel this will be seen as vandalism.
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It would be a good idea to read through the information about what makes a good wayspot, because what you have done is the wrong approach. The best thing to do is go around your local area and find interesting things that meet criteria and are eligible.
Please have a look at these for understanding what makes a good wayspot.
Eligibilty <https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/eligibility>
Acceptance <https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/acceptance>
Rejection <https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/rejection>
Also https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/21-wayfarer/section/166-wayspot-criteria/?l=en&p=web
We have a lot of folks here who are good at looking around on Google Maps and making suggestions of eligible locations. I hope someone can find you something acceptable to submit!
Good morning, can you explain a bit further what do you mean with “wrong approach”?
Thanks for the sources, so do you think this counts as vandalism even if this was an intentional painting? I know it’s not a masterpiece but it’s not just a bunch of words overlapping as the vandalism example
From a quick look on google maps:
Possible church “LLDM Las Torres” at 32.553228, -116.894231
Pentacostal Chuch at 32.552438, -116.893323
Seventh Day Adventist Church at 32.552817, -116.890852
The best approach for wayspots is to go out and find things, not to create things and try to push them into the games. Although it /is/ possible to create eligible things, this works best when it is done by organisations and is done officially, for example, creating markers for a trail that already exists or creating a new trail.
I was also finding another pertinent link:
It will be rejected as vandalism, as generic graffiti, as nothing special. as home-made.
And I can’t tell if this applies, but if this wall is the boundary of a single family private residential property, this location is ineligible:
More possible wayspots from a scan of google maps
Function Rooms Facility at 32.551431, -116.888112
Museum at 32.551826, -116.886921
Catholic Church at 32.549636, -116.894980
They might not exist, as google maps does have imaginary things on it, but a walk round the area would help.
Good morning, this is not a private neighborhood, anyone can walk around the location and physically touch the painting if that is what you mean
Thanks for the locations! But as far as I know two of these are just regular homes and one is already a wayspot (a church and a mural/painting seems to be the things approved around there, so that why I decided to try doing a painting)
If you read the link that Cyndie shared, you’d see thats not what she means. Its not about who can touch it, and more about who does it belong to.
The paintings are painted outside my property, while the inner of the property it’s private (as a regular house) the street and wall outside where the paintings are is from public access, I can understand the concern because some other countries doesn’t have their homes “fenced(?” Inside a square walls
Unfortunately these are not allowed.
Doesn’t his only applies if it’s a private neighborhood?
That’s why I qualified with saying not everything on google maps is real. The Pentacostal and Seventh Day churches have reviews, suggesting (but not confirming) that they do actually exist.
Any restaurants around there would make good submissions. Often restaurants get rejected, so you would need to make a good case for them, but there aren’t many POI and also not many restaurants, so they are worth doing.
Basic guidelines for wayspot submissions:
The main photo is key - it wants to attract reviewers and make them think “this looks like a good wayspot”.
The supporting photo needs to have the wayspot object in the wider context - don’t show the surroundings without showing how the wayspot object exists in those surroundings.
Any claims to fame, such as how popular or special a restaurant is, need to be backed up with evidence. Put links into the supporting text, e.g. google review link, restaurant website.
Don’t put game-related terms in the main narrative and they don’t belong in the supporting text either - pokestop, gym etc. Don’t beg. Don’t say “there’s nothing around here, so this needs to be accepted” - reviewers can see from the nearby-locations map that an area has a lot or not very much.
Check whether the wayspot object can be seen and confirmed at that location. Use the supporting photo to help, so if there is no streetview, you can help the reviewers match up to satellite images or to streetview from further away. Again, supporting links help if you can find any.
These are not allowed when the property boundary is SFPRP - single-family private residential property. Anything on the outside of the boundary, such as a fence or wall, is an ineligible location.
It’s a legal issue. As part of a resolution to a court case some time back, Niantic had to make sure that SFPRP did not have people hanging around. This is applied globally.