Always.
But I don’t know anything about them so I’m asking people who know.
Actually… I know a bit more than yesterday and that podcast was interesting and the FDNY museum looks pretty cool.
And I got to post ding-ding-ding-ding/ding/ding-ding so that’s a bonus.
If anyone does have useful links, bits of history on US street furniture please post it.
They are part of the history but not every single one has to be a wayspot.
As someone said earlier, if somebody is visiting you from out to town, are you going to take them to show this callbox? And that callbox, and that callbox, and that callbox and the other callbox, and 40 other in this neighborhood on every other street corner?
No. You might take them to show off 1 nice looking one with fresh pain or some other interesting features, and even that would be while you were on the way to somewhere else.
They get approved because pogo players do not care about quality. They just want quantity. And they can’t be removed because Niantic always replies with “does not meet removal criteria” 
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Earlier this month, Mayor Bloomberg spoke of removing all 15,077 fire alarm boxes from city streets, on the grounds that more often than not they were used to transmit false alarms.
The mayor mentioned the idea only briefly, in reaction to a question at a news conference. But his remark underscores the modern role of the boxes, which now compete with 911 and cellphones when it comes to reporting fires, and which in an age of tight city dollars are not without cost.
The comment also puts the history of the boxes on the table. For many years, New York deployed ‘‘fire watch towers’’ to report blazes, the last standing example of which is in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem. But the term of civic duty of these towers generally ended around 1870. They were replaced with individual telegraphic boxes, and so began the era of modern fire alarms.
Early models of the fire alarm were cast in ornate iron designs and painted red; the modern versions, which sit on slender redmetal reeds, have a minimalist aesthetic. The city’s sexiest alarm box may have been a glamorous gold Art Deco model that stood at the ready on the West Side Highway.
Getting back to the original post of things approved that definitely, maybe shouldn’t be added.
Fast food places?
NY call boxes. With exceptions?
Postboxes. With no exceptions?
Vietnamese Banks?
cop mayor eric adams will probably install 15000 additional ones with cameras
I agree on the boring wayspots part. For you it might be call boxes and stores, for here in the Netherlands, Belgium we got a bunch of playgrounds, trial markers in all sorts and mini liberies. C’mon, at this point it’s more about quantity instead of quality right?
Playgrounds, trail markers and libraries can all make good waypoints though
It might be abit hard to follow the Appalachian Trail without markers, this is why these markers exist.
I’m seeing that too.
I love memorial benches too!
Now, memorial trees… I generally appreciate memorials but the memorial trees tend to have plaques or signs that seem awfully intransigent to me.
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