I’m trying to get pokestops all over my school’s campus, but every time I try I get automatically rejected by the bot with no reason to why other than it was declined for not adhering to Wayfarer criteria. I ended up appealing the one and was able to get a stop here, but I have about 10 more and not enough appeals. I tried resubmitting, but also had no success. I’m not sure what’s wrong here. The images are my rejected stops, and the other is the one I was able to appeal and get through and made into a stop.
Hello and welcome,
First, not all approved Wayspot will show up in every game, as each have their own density/inclusion rules. For PoGo, it uses S2 cells, specifically L17 S2 cells, and Ingress has a 20 m radius rule. More info on PoGo and S2 cells can be found here:
https://pokemongohub.net/post/featured/comprehensive-guide-s2-cells-pokemon-go/
I’m guessing these are on a campus of a Pennco trade school:
It appears that Pennco is a post high school vocational and tech college, but ML may be seeing it as a high school. That could be throwing ML off, making it think these are at a K-12 school, not a post high school trade college.
You may want to consider resubmitting instead of appealing, as we only get 2 appeals every 20 days. If you didn’t include a link to the college in your supporting info, that would be a good thing to do, as well as noting it’s a collebge for those 18 and over, not a K-12 school. The sitting areas I would rename to picnic areas, since they are picnic tables. The student entrance sign is just a directional sign, and those are ineligible.
Other than that, I don’t know what else to tell you, as you didn’t provide the full submissions. Yes, these are where the different trades are taught, but you have to make sure that your nominations meet the criteria as a great place to be social/exercise/explore. These could meet the explore criteria, as they are important to the college community and facilitate learning. The picnic areas are eligible as great places to be social. I also don’t know if these are for the Bristol or Blackwood campus.
That’a not accurate. A single picnic table, as long as it is a permanent fixture of the area, can be eligible. Now, if there were several picnic tables in the same area, there can only be one Wayspot for the entire area, not each table.
I would try to resubmit the nighttime shots with daytime photos. Maybe try one or two and come back and let us know how those go. Try to help the ML model (machine learning ai) understand what is being submitted with the clearest photo possible.
U should read more at criteria clarification collection,
There is nothing in the clarification you shared that says it cannot just be one table. It says that a group of tables should be submitted as one nomination.
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I regularly use examples from the Criteria Clarification Collection when helping answer others’ questions. However, no where in the picnic area section does it say that a single picnic table may be an ineligible nomination for a picnic area.
I myself have submitted picnic areas, some with just one table, and some with several. Again, what is important is that the picnic table(s), they are permanent fixtures to the area, not ones that can easily moved elsewhere.
The photo in the clarification is just to demonstrate 1 style of picnic area that may be eligible; staff didn’t list all types of picnic areas that may be eligible, but they do provide guidance, especially with picnic areas with more than 1 picnic table, as some will nominate all the tables in a very small area, when all of in one area and would be one Wayspot.
I see quite a lot of submissions from universities and even though the building might be the Such-and-Such Faculty or the Department of Whatever, they are not necessarily distinct because there are lots of very similar buildings in the same area.
Concentrate on the most significant parts of the campus first (this will also help to ensure that they become a wayspot before any others). So, entrance buildings, anything architecturally interesting or that strongly meets the criteria of exploration, socialising or exercise.
Some of these don’t look pedestrian-friendly, such as the garage with the trucks in. Directional signs are also not notable. Picnic areas maybe are, but give them a better description than “#3”, e.g. where it is on site or north/south/east/west etc.