Hello, as game was just released in the country. I feel obligated to help increase the amount of pokestops available. How many reviews are needed and is it possible to get help from other areas to increase the pokestops available? I do not believe that there are that many +37 level players since the game was just released. Furthermore, is nomination like government building or cell towers (different designs) eligible to nomination? I saw many of those ones
Hello and welcome to our global community @Dotaro241
It’s great that you are keen to add wayspots, and there are probably lots of suitable candidates.
I don’t want to overwhelm you with information to begin with. It’s probably better to have a dialogue with you asking questions.
Do log in to the wayfarer site - link at top of forum. There are lots of useful help pages, especially about criteria….
Is the potential wayspot a
Great place to socialise
Great place to exercise
Great place to explore.
If we take your example of a cell tower it’s not somewhere you would go to to meet friends and spend time. It’s not a place that has anything to do with exercise. Would you say to someone - you need to go and look at this cell tower because it’s cool.
So the answer is no, this is a standard utility feature so not a Point of Interest.
That’s the sort of thought process you go through.
You ask how many reviews does it take. That is a piece of information that Wayfarer will say. So in terms of community review it might take time. We can sometimes change bonus location and some wayfinders like to go to places that might benefit from help.
If a nomination is good and of something that would commonly be accepted there is an automatic process that might accept it so that it doesn’t need community review.
Hope this isnt too long, keep asking questions 
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Thank you for the detailed response. Yah I see the Cell tower example is true. I am surprised that some of those are tags which confuses me a bit. Similar to it public bathroom is a tag but they are not good for a pokestop. I am trying to learn more about it. Is it possible to go somewhere and ask for people to switch their bonus Location or that is not allowed? After doing 574 reviews here in my home town I believe I finished all the nominations possible.
Ah yes the tags are a regular source of confusion.
They do not represent a list of what is acceptable. They are simply a way of categorisation of a wayspot that Developers could use in a game if they needed to.
So don’t pay attention to them in deciding if something is valid or not.
You are free to create a topic in the general discussion area requesting people consider Saudis Arabia and why. As it is a large area you might want to suggest places that would benefit most.
This gives an idea of the area that a bonus location would cover
If you haven’t done so please do read this article about S2 cells
https://pokemongohub.net/post/article/comprehensive-guide-s2-cells-pokemon-go/
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I’m curious what part of “the game” was just released in Saudi Arabia? I have a Sandstorm scatterbug in PGO, obtained from a gift someone sent me from Jeddah in Dec 2022.
I believe you could play Pokémon GO in Saudi Arabia before now if you had installed it in another country (say I am in UK, it is on UK’s App Store but not in Saudi Arabia’s App Store) and then travelled there.
I’d seen this a few days ago so I guess you can now natively download it and thus there’s more players there rather than just tourists or people that have used a VPN etc.
I wonder if Ingress is available there.
Interesting. I’m almost positive the person I got the gift from lived there.
Then he had to download an apk file. Game is not possible to download from the stores. I also thought with the release they will increase pokestops but I realized that is something i have to take on my own hand
Hello, you are correct! Also ingress prime is indeed available. The only thing we are still missing is campfire the app
I think Campfire is still missing from several countries. There is a web based version (which is Pokémon GO focused) but I don’t know if you can access that?