I get this photos a lot when reviewing photo selection. Is this normal? [image]

That’s a placeholder image for when the existing wayspot or powerspot doesn’t have a photo. This can happen for old wayspots that never had one, but it’s rare. [Edited to add: This is one of those rare situations, as Turkey had the Foursquare imports] It can happen when people try to add photos to…

Almost every photo review has a photo like this for me. Perhaps my region has poor quality initial submissions.

This is why I am not happy about the instruction here. [image] Testing New Wayspots in Pokémon GO In the meantime, please skip or report these if they come across your review flow. It is hard to know which are photo adds that you should accept or ones that you should skip or reject. As alrea…

Nope not in these 3 countries. Most of the ones i get are from Turkey

I just did a non-scientific test by randomly selecting a town in NW Turkey and clicking on 20 or so portals in Ingress - they all had photos. On this basis, the reviews are either from people adding photos to powerspots (I would reject, as above) Edited: Foursquare imports into Turkey are legitim…

[image] salixsorbus: It can happen when people try to add photos to powerspots, but a good response is to reject the photo, because not-having-a-photo helps to make it easier to differentiate between powerspots and wayspots when submitting new things. I understand your personal reasoning, but…

True. It’s just an attempt to workaround a problem created by Niantic for people who use the submission map to identify what is already in the game and what might conflict with their submission. This doesn’t make this approach official. Thanks for the reminder about Turkey. I had something in th…

[image] salixsorbus: True. It’s just an attempt to workaround a problem created by Niantic for people who use the submission map to identify what is already in the game and what might conflict with their submission. This doesn’t make this approach official. I think it’s fair to help explain t…

Southest edge of Turkey the only ones I get since I live in Cyprus.

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salixsorbus October 17, 2025, 11:01am 4

Maybe you are in a area that Niantic have added pokestops to - have a look at Testing New Wayspots in Pokémon GO

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