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Hello and Welcome,
You will be surprised what can be found and accepted as a wayspot. Very few areas will have nothing.
Suggestion 1: Screenshot the entirity of one of your submissions and post. Long term members will take a look and either state that it is a none starter or give suggestions on ways that may improve its chances of success.
Suggestion 2: Post the gps co-ords (just the general area, you don’t want to mark your exact home 
). Members will take a look at google maps and make suggestions of possible nominations.
Good luck.
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I agree. I think the distance between wayspots could be a factor enabling greater flexibility. I spend about half my time in a city and half in a rural town. I have to walk at least four times as far between pokestops in the rural town, but I have had an unmarked park entrance rejected there as I attempted to make Pokémon Go more playable for locals. People in small rural towns should have flexible criteria applied until the wayspot density approaches that of cities.
It might not be as easy as you think…
Whatever changes where made would effect others.
By the way, Welcome to the forums…
Thinking about what you have written, maybe step 1 is getting parks onto Google Maps if it doesn’t show them? What about Open Streetmaps? Is that used?
I bet that is what went wrong with my nomination. It looks like a driveway, but it is the entrance to a park. Thank you. That helps me to think about how to show what it really is.
You can certainly link to OSM or any other evidence you can find to show that it’s a park in the supporting text. It’s really easy to deeplink into OSM, for example this is a local park - Way: 23488081 | OpenStreetMap
You can also be creative with the supporting photo, maybe have a collage with more information.
There are some here who say that OSM can be manipulated, but I’ve never seen it done and but I have with Google Maps.
No not really. It is extreme obvious that it is not the case.
In a small village everything gets declined. I just experience it again. Even with extrem stupid reasons. Some are declines because of “duplicate” even if there is no other poke stop around.
Pokémon go is for people in big cities where you can lay in bed and play. If you live in a village it is impossible.
Without seeing the full nomination, it may be hard to tell where to improve. How the submission is presented is also taken into account. Let us run through it and maybe help you get different results.
There can also be instances where the wayspot for the object exist but is not utilized in Pokémon GO.
I agree that there is significant difficulty in finding eligible items in rural places. This initiative hinges on the presence of real world objects/places to tie down game objects though. Until that is not the case, places with more “bustle” would have more things by definition.
As I wrote before, the current PoGo system is the root cause of the issue, and Wayfarer can reduce your dissatisfaction but cannot solve it.
Unfortunately, rural areas will never have the same density of pokestops as cities.
However, if you become a PoGo Community Ambassador and use your ambassador privileges to create fictional pokemon gyms and pokestops as gathering places for your community, your wish may little come true.
I live in a village, admittedly a large one. There are more than 70 wayspots in the village and surrounding areas, and no I did not submit them all myself. Often it’s a question of knowing what is acceptable and finding it.
That having been said, there is a very small village next to my village and despite exploring the whole place and its surroundings I’ve never found anything that could be submitted. Sometimes there is just nothing. I will keep looking out of stubbornness.
If you are seeing duplicates then it sounds the the wayspot already exists but isn’t showing in-game. When you submit the wayspot, check the map carefully to see if the POI already exists but isn’t showing because of proximity. Annoyingly, in some small villages all the potential wayspots are very close to each other (e.g. pub, village noticeboard, historic post box all on the same building). It’s worth submitting them even if they’re close because they’ll appear as things like Power Spots in PoGo and will also show in other Niantic/Scopely games.. but there’s no point submitting them if they already exist.
Getting lots of declines is disheartening.
The nomination support area has a lot of topics where fellow wayfinders, many of whom have experienced the same frustrations you express, have helped to improve submissions and get positive outcomes. Having the support of others can be a huge boost when you feel like you are hitting barriers.
Without seeing the situation we cant sensibly comment as to why in your case you are having problems.
It can be frustrating in small villages that there are several eligible things within metres of each other
A place at the heart of the village - The community hall, plaques that mark significant incidents, artistic benches - 3 or 4 things but because of Pokemon Go inclusion rules only 1 stop. Those same rules apply in a city so it would only be 1 stop there too. It just feels more frustrating in a small village as there may not be other eligible things nearby, whereas there may be in a city.
Does pogo / wayfarer have requirement for this?
There is a Gym connected to the same location. Please note that you have have only one Wayspot per play area.
I think it needs to be said at least that Wayfarer is not a panacea.
You may want to ask PoGo for the PoGo Community Ambassador recruitment requirements.