Safe Wayspots

Have Niantic given up on trying to pretend that they actually care about individual safety or the philosophical ideas about not adding things on emergency services, schools etc?

I know y’all got in a tizzy when they added horrible Powerspots and you could see them on your map but this is ok?

I mean it’s only Brazil right? Who cares if someone in Brazil gets run over by a car, a school gets added, nursing homes, infertility clinics…

Explorers! If you see something you think isn’t eligible please report it to us or our ever ready Ambassadors!!! You can now even add a splat to help out!!! We’ll keep on doing our best to help you help us get better!!!

I think the Pokemon Go team gave up, yeah.
But the Wayfarer team will continue to threaten us with a ban if we do anything wrong.

I would love to help them out with decent quality power spots, and submit lots of valid, open, commercial business premises, but I have been told that will get me in trouble so that’s that i guess.

Happy days. And dodging in raids is still ruined, so there’s not much for me to do anymore

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I’m not entirely sure if these appear in Go only?

Good news for residents of São Paolo if they do though as if the cars don’t get you the train will!

Splaaaatttt!

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Yep, I sure love how the new power spots can fill the game with outdated slop and countless private companies, but when we try to do the same, we get shut down if not straight-up punished.

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These are from Lightship for I’m assuming City Safari in December.

Once, a colleague of mine said, that datas are companies crown jewels

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Ironically Crown Jewels is slang in the UK and these are most definitely absolute balls.

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Not only in the UK :smile:

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I always thought it was the balls plus the … sceptre :wink:

I suppose we can conclude that the metaphor means the database will have some things of the highest quality, ie the crown jewels non- slang variety, but the slang variety also gets in there too

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Niantic Wayfarer’s map data, like their acclaimed Overture Maps, is nothing but junk.
Around the time the Wayfarer team became an independent group, they didn’t understand the advantages of their data and just continued to augment the weaknesses.
So no one will be surprised if this happens.