Is there a current record for the highest number of accepted wayspot submissions?
That’s a fun question!
I really love to contribute to the wayfarer map and always try to find something interesting to add whenever I am visiting a new place.
This landed me at 1790 accepted wayspots currently.
I am pretty sure this is not the record right now, so am curious who contributed more or have interesting stories to share 
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I think @AgentX1976 reported being over 2000.
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That’s awesome! I didn’t start submitting immediately after the feature became available in Pokemon so my number is a bit lower. Though if we count the ones submitted too when a friend hands me their phone to fill out the nomination, it’d be a little more than 3000.
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In sure it must be nice living in a big city and submitting memorial benches and trail markers… While in the third world even gorgeous beaches are way to low brow for Niantics approval.
Thanks for assuming. We all have to follow the guidelines set up by Niantic. Natural features are just not one of them, however, there is likely other interesting locations to find that follow the guidelines.
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I’m currently at 2249
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While I do have the majority of my nominations in a large(ish) city I’ve done hundreds in small towns. It takes a bit of looking but they are there.
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how many memorial benches and trail marker?
also what is your secret dude, i got 3 out of 100 nominations approved and for two of them i had to use appeals
1580 accepted for me, wish I had kept maxing out available nominations all along but it is what it is. my goal is 2k but at one per day that’s a long ways off.
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lol i was excited about reaching 1000! currently at 1036 as of just now. ty ML!
Not many memorial benches, trail markers yes maybe 100 or so.
We’re probably pretty similar then. Most of mine are in a city about the same size, but I also spend a lot of weekends driving around the countryside submitting things.
I hear Foursquare has one of the best acceptance rates for their wayspot submissions 
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Since I’m here, let me offer a topic.
There is an Ingress agent named ”Taisa”, although it must have been about 9 years since he stopped playing.
He is probably the only holder of the Seer Onyx Medal in the world with a total of 5540 approved Ingress portals.
Amazingly, he achieved this feat in the first half of 2015, not 2024.
Yes, this was achieved at a time when Niantic was only presenting abstract, Zen-like statements and when it was said that it would take more than a year from application to approval.
Therefore, it is not a first-mover advantage.
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Im still trying to figure this out, and i think their standarts are bonkers.
You forgot to disclose your secret however good sir
Well, I know is not the record but I’m enough proud to share my numbers here as I started to be more serious with Wayfarer 1 year ago ^^
I’m right now at 978 nominations (I have enough future nominations waiting to be submitted to reach 1000) and from all of them I have 760 accepted. Most of them are around my local area but I’m happy I have several other wayspots accepted in other 7 countries (in 2 weeks they will be in 8 countries) 
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Looks like I’ve got another 2500 to go then!
The biggest tip I can give to anyone is take a good primary photo. I am very much of the opinion if your nomination is eligible then the primary photo will do 95% of the work.
Get up close to the object. Set your phone picture aspect ratio to a 1:1 ratio, if you keep it in 16:9 or even 4:3 you will lose most of the picture when it gets put in the game. Here are some recently accepted ones.
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Back then, if you could find a tour (history walk, art hop, etc) website, and send it to Niantic, you’d get credit for all the portals Niantic used it to create. The map was blank then, except for Post Offices and HMDb entries. So it was a way to ramp up the database. Most people made individual nominations, but some scoured the internet.
I believe a bunch of agents got Onyx Seer (which only counts nominations made before 2015).
That was before I joined, but I’ve been regaled in person about hunting for websites, submitting them, and watching Seer number explode.
I submitted 615 (long after Seer existed) and have 485 accepted. I hope to hit 500 soon.