Pokestops in small towns

Why is it hard to get pokestop approved when you live in a small town or reserve. As we only have 2 pokestops where i live and it makes it hard to even complete tasks and dynamax battled It would be awesome to get enough pokestops so we can get a gym so we dont have wait to travel just to do task we need to do to help us level and get pokedex filled just something to think of while you review pokestops these pokestops nominations were rejected can you help me out how i can get it aproved… thanks everyone in advanced

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It would help to see screenshots of the contributions including the rejection reasons and the text used if you would like our advice on these. But “Police Service” sound like a location that would be rejected for “Obstructs emergency services”. I am not sure how “Child and Family Services” meets the criteria of a great place to be social, exercise, or explore.

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This is a duplicate of this thread:

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The other thread does not have specific photos to work with.

I Googled the Child Services location and y’all have way more portals than I was expecting from this post. I did see this:

Have you tried to submit this? It seems promising: http://www.ngfc.net/

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Why is it hard to get pokestop approved when you live in a small town or reserve. As we only have 2 pokestops where i live and it makes it hard to even complete tasks and dynamax battled It would be awesome to get enough pokestops so we can get a gym so we dont have wait to travel just to do task we need to do to help us level and get pokedex filled just something to think of while you review pokestops

Welcome to the forum @Mrman242

Unfortunately not all places were designed and built with Niantic’s wayfarer database in mind. It can be frustrating living in an area with not many potential wayspots, especially if you try to submit some things and they get rejected.

I can appreciate that not everyone feels comfortable sharing their general location on a public forum, but if you are willing to share where your small town/reserve is, there are several wayfarer users on here who will happily poke around on maps and the Internet to see if they can find things that you maybe haven’t thought about submitting but that are eligible.

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Hello and welcome,

I see you started another thread about this topic here:

Hopefully a mod can merge the 2.

That would be awesome as I’m have trouble finding good spots for for pokestops and I’m having a gard time with my pokemon go account right now to… but I appreciate it

Hi, welcome - I have merged the two threads you started as they seem to be about the same question. I think it’s going to be easier to keep all advice you get in a single thread.

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Thank you so much I didn’t realize I made to but thanks

No worries at all!

Have you seen this topic about rural submissions?

Lots of great things to think about.
We will be very happy to help find things and comment on potential submissions.
If you provide the location @BlameJamal loves to go round in the Google car.

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The location I found for the example in the first photo is
50.09914299280328, -91.91840078650755
Tikinagan Child and Family Services

Are you sure your looking at Fort Hope Ontario Canada…cause we dont have a king st here but theres a maps of fort hope and the places i wanted to nominate… hss and naps logo loctaed on the back entace area

No, I wasn’t sure I found the right place. I googled the name in the photo. That is why I left the coordinates I was at.

Will try
51.559866,-87.900578
from your screenshot now.

But give me suggestions using google map and the community name is Fort Hope Ontario Canada… and ill label more place on google map thanks guys


Is this “Memorial Arena” part of the school? That should be a good nomination if it isn’t.

I would think you could make a case that they are significant to the community for the Waboose Toys and Bobkang Coffee shop. Businesses aren’t easy so you need to make a strong statement how important they are for the community, not for playing a game.

There is also an EFN Youth Centre label. If that is only for kids under the age of adult, then it wouldn’t be eligible, but if it is for families, that might work.

Do those trails have any signage for them you could submit.

Without street view, it is really hard to look any closer to make suggestions. But if you have something you want to ask about, please show us.

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A dead end road appears to lead to a beach here. Is this a point of interest?

I was trying to figure out what “Eabametoong Band Office” is. I still don’t know if that is eligible but their website mentions it

  • Provides a Canada Post postal station at Corny’s Variety Store

Post Offices are good Wayspots, so you might see if that looks like something you can submit. Not just a letter drop box, though.

They also mention

a local radio station (89.9 FM)

and

a 5-acre community garden/farm

Those would be worth checking out.

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@cyndiepooh is now on the case and you are in good hands.
I will move this to nomination support.

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