If that Pogomap was accurate then next time Niantic would readjust the area northwest to affected area.
Or rather, after receiving a report from a certain user…
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The database for Niantic games is now the lightship database base. It holds all accepted wayspots. These may or may not appear in Niantic games.
Prior to the Lightship database, ingress was used as the database. Ingress has a 20 m proximity rule.
Pokémon Go has always used the same strategy to populate their game board. The 20 m rule from Ingress has no effect on Pokémon Go rules. At most, with the switch to the Lightship database there are more wayspots to choose from and not less.
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20 meters was never a criteria for Pokemon Go. If there were stops and gyms that close to each other, it was in all probability, created through abuse
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Yes it was, but it was 10m apart not 20m.
It was when Ingress portals didn’t have any restriction. Now the old “rule” for pokestops/gyms is used in Ingress and Pokemon GO uses only s2 cells.
The rule for Pokestops was always alone in an L17 S2 cell. But before Lightship, Ingress was the database. So accepted nominations had to become portals before they could become Poke somethings. And that looked like a spacing rule for Pogo, especially since “too close” is the reason they gave for something not showing up in Pogo in the email.
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Before the Lightship database, s2 cells were only used to determine which POI would become a gym. As for which portal from ingress will appear in PoGo, the “10m apart” rule was decisive.
I don’t know where this belief comes from that the appearance of POIs in PoGo has always depended on s2 cells, because it’s not entirely true. Everything changed with the introduction of Lightship.
No, Pokémon Go has always used Level 17 S2 Cells to determine whether a wayspot should become a Pokéstop. When the Gym system was changed, the Level 14 S2 Cell rules were updated in order for more Gyms to be created, but the Level 17 S2 Cell rule has always been there.
Prior to Lightship, Ingress was treated as the database, and as such, if a nomination was within 20 metres of an existing Portal (and it was still 20 metres, not 10 metres), it wouldn’t get added to the database, and thus it couldn’t appear in Pokémon Go even if it was in its own Level 17 S2 Cell because it wasn’t in the database. Obviously it wasn’t ideal that Pokémon Go was subject to both its own proximity rules and the proximity rules used in Ingress, and so when the database was migrated to Lightship (which has no proximity rules itself), this behaviour was fixed, and now wayspots in Pokémon Go don’t also have to adhere to the proximity rules for Ingress, they only have to adhere to the rules used in Pokémon Go.
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