It’s a second time I’m trying to submit the photo, but it keeps being rejected.
I tried my best to capture that old villa a whole, because while standing near it either it’s not enough to see it fully or one could enter a busy street.
Any way to bypass it or submit directly?
The villa is from around 1930r, was renovated around 2018 and still remains as beautiful as it was after reconstruction.
Wayspot Title: Zabytkowy dom
Location(lat/lon):51.7406773, 19.4580420
City: Łódź
Country: Poland
Screenshot of the Rejection Email:
Current photo:
You can appeal the rejection from your contributions page.
If the license plate is readable in the full resolution, that is a rejection reason, fyi.
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If I were submitting this photo, I would crop it to square to leave out the car with the plate and so much pavement:
I always take my photos first so that I can look at them in my gallery and make adjustments if needed before submitting.
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Compared to title or description editing, it doesn’t allow me to appeal.
The button for appeal isn’t there in both submissions.
You get 2 appeals, each on a 20 day timer before you can use it again.
Photo rejections can be appealed (I checked to be sure)
Yeah, might be it.
This is the original uncropped photo, with unnecessary objects with x2 optical zoom from across the street:
This is the photo I’m submitting:
Might try whiting out the license plates, because those cars are unfortunately always parked there. Strange, since the villa has a huge parking lot…
Get some other opinions, but I think whiting out the license plate is “obvious doctoring” which is also rejection criteria.
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That explains why there’s no “Appeal” button, I’m in the process of appealing for rejected title change (second time too) for a place that had name change visible on Google Maps but Niantic knows better…
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If it was an “our team” decision on the edit, I agree that the ML (machine learning ai) model needs some work. I am very glad you appealed that to help with the “learning” part.
I’ll might try finding the owner of a car, leave a note to move it for a day if retouching won’t solve quto-reject via licence plate.
I would crop the original down like Cyndie suggested and go with “much better” rather than perfect
The ML might even approve it immediately if it didnt have so much of the surroundings in the picture?
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This is just my personal opinion, but it can’t be both ways: no license plates and no whiting out license plates. I alter images to obscure license plates all the time with no problem.
Sometimes the rules seemingly set up a standard that is way too high if you don’t also use some common sense to try to determine the reasoning behind them. If the reasoning behind this rule is to protect identity and whiting it out in a tiny portion of the image does that, it should be OK.
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I mean, it wouldn’t be as obviously edited as whiting out the license plate to just remove the car from the photo, would it?
You mean removing the car by cropping or by magic eraser?
I honestly can’t tell the license plate has been obscured in the sample image above. The plate is soooooo small. You have to zoom in so far and by then, the whole image is grainy.
Oh you know how bad my eyes are, so I was just naming possibilities. “Use your best judgment” applies to adjusting photos as well.
lol just for kicks I tried to remove the car from the photo with the current tools on my phone, and it would not go away. I made it into a mini-minivan and a subcompact.
@SpecialProjectY if the community rejected the photo as indicated on the email, you should be seeing the reason(s) they rejected it on your contributions page.
Yeah, the structure of the window behind the car seems like it would present a problem if you tried to remove the car altogether. The program probably wouldn’t know where to end the windows.
I keep in mind that these images are for mobile
games. So you might be able to blow them up and see more detail on a computer, but 99% of people interacting with them on mobile won’t do that and will have varying quality on their devices.
I had a word with them. They said sorry.
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Okay, status update.
@cyndiepooh
When I click on the contribution that was rejected there’s information about the reason for rejecting it when I click on it, but nothing else a part what was submitted, it’s current status and a map where the Pokestop is.
@26thDoctor
Haha, that looks great, missing a door tho’ 
I have made a photo during dusk time when there were no cars, which was immediately accepted by AI I think.
After few days had contacted the owner of the car, which was not surprisingly the owner of cosmetic surgery parlour. She had a moment of clarity to figure how silly it is not to park on own parking lot instead on the street, which also covers the facade of the saloon… extra win.
It appears that the seemingly insignificant thing as parked cars can get the photo rejected, which is strange because I see them quite a lot on photos…
Thanks for help people!
Oops sorry. Forgot this was about a photo add and was replying about a nomination rejection. Scrolled back to the top. I am sorry for confusing the issue.
