But again like I was saying before that criteria is very vague and subjective, I personally believe it meets the criteria since I don’t see how it’s different than footbridges in other locations that have passed before. It honestly feels fairly discriminatory that this one doesn’t pass because it’s in a dense suburban area vs one in a more rural area.
And yes I’m aware of how the game works, I’ve been playing for 9 years now :3 it’s pretty frustrating tho when I go to uptown Whittier and there’s a mass of pokestops there but I have to fight Emily just to get an actual person to see my nominations. Or when I’m in Fullerton at the college and there’s goofy things that get accepted, or just how community ambassadors can just sorta pick a spot to turn into a pokestop. How can I get more players more locally to me to play if there’s nowhere to play? Do I just have to move at that point?
And honestly the lack of pokestops and gyms by my house was a reason I took a long hiatus from the game, then started playing again once more spots have been added. I just really want to make the game better for everyone and try to build a bigger go community around me
Correct - and I think honestly having a conversation and defending your proposal against peers is the best way to improve your nomination, rather than requesting them to not be involved. You’ll wind up in an echo chamber and likely be set up for disappointment from community voting. And it’s ok for all of us to disagree, long after all is said, because we will have gotten more understanding of each other’s reasoning.
I think most of us can empathize with this, however keep in mind that places with more POI will always be at cultural centers of the community. Suburbs simply rarely have the type of infrastructure that makes great Wayspots. It isn’t Wayfarer to blame, it’s how the cities choose to develop the communities.
You have more POI closer to this location than I do near me.
A few comments on your Supporting text… A Wayspot doesn’t exist to draw attention to something the community may not be aware of. It may be eligible because it is important to the community in some way. Why is this footbridge important? Why is it there? What value does it bring? Can you connect that to exploration?
Emily exist for good reason. Without it, wayfarer is flooded with ineligible nomination, i am not saying about yours, since i also have my own share of rejection. What you can do is just taking more picture and hopefully one of it pass AI.
Anyway in rural area, some nomination might be easier from community route because local people might know more about your nomination without you need to tell them. Thats why we have community review. Some nomination like chain restaurant thats easily rejected elsewhere can be accepted in more rural area where it might be more popular.
I believe if you keep trying different photo, you will at least pass AI
Hi @phoenixxed
Since you’re on the course to defend this footbridge and take all critics against it to improve your submission, I want to share my critics.
If I would be the human reviewer I’d try to look at it on streetview/satellite. When I do that I’ll find:
Your description says there’s a creek and beautiful flowers. That doesn’t match streetview.
Also on maps it looks like the google car pasts the bridge (the blue line goes throuw). So I’d ask myselve if that could be a temporary construction zone.
So be prepaired for those points.
Creeks usually have names. Google maps doesn’t show any name for this “creek.” I think it’s just part of the storm water run off drainage system of the area. If there’s proof that it is more than that, I can’t find it.
Yeah, this is literally a stormwater channel.
https://www.cityofwhittier.org/government/public-works/stormwater-pollution
Image showing how this all works from the City of Whittier website
I do feel like it’s important to the community since it does connect the neighborhoods, which helps bring people together.
I also personally find it really a cool piece of architecture since it was built so long ago and there aren’t really any bridges like this around here, the footbridges around here are bigger and made of wood (except for the new one they built in the nice part of creek park lol).
It’s also nice because of the plants and bits of nature; sometimes ducks will come and hang out in the creek and around spring the plants are in bloom. I’m going to try getting different pictures that can show people how I see the bridge.
Yeah that street view does not do it justice, it looks like it may have been taken in fall or winter when things are dried out, plus at that vantage point you can’t see the creek. I took a few new ones yesterday
I could’ve swore that it was called La Mirada creek since it starts on the La Mirada side of the neighborhood, it does run off into a bigger creek, La Canada Verde Creek.
I’m probably going to try to get a picture of it from the side because I feel like that’ll look way better especially since I think the creek looks cool rn
Ok cool, just replace everywhere I said “creek” with “drain channel” then :3 I don’t really want this to come down to semantics, it’s a pedestrian footbridge that goes over a body of water. The focus of the POI is mainly the bridge anyways :1
If you are going to resubmit I would go with the second one, cropped so it is square by taking out a lot of the sky. It is as nice a picture that you will get of this footbridge.
It has been clarified what this location is. Stick to the facts, don’t try to bend and stretch to make out it’s something else as reviewers will see what it is
