I see cases where only one or two people can ever access something as very important. I may have a beautiful, priceless work of art in my office, but only I and maybe one other person is allowed to go into my office. Should that be a way spot for Niantic.? I don’t think so.
The example of only one person being able to use a piece of equipment at a time is not at all the same point. Because in theory if a piece of equipment is publicly accessible to some public group, not to everyone perhaps but some group of people, then multiple people can “access “ it even if they can’t use it at the same time.
A place cannot be a great place to explore or a great place to exercise for the purposes of Niantic, I believe, if only one person is ever able to access it. And I don’t mean it one time, I mean ever which is the case and some of the situations we see. I personally don’t believe that Niantic ever intended for people to submit points of interest that were only accessible to themselves and no one else.
Here’s what I mean
Continuing the discussion from Private Residences, Farmland & K-12:
So accessible by some community of people, not just one person.