I recently submitted a wayspot for the local food co-op in the town I’m staying in. It acts as the local grocer, as well as a community hub with a seating area outside. I’ve included images of the rejection below.
I disagree with the wayspot lacking uniqueness, given the rarity of co-ops in the us. The location is also one of the few places you can actually sit down or meet up with others in town. From what I can tell there aren’t any other wayspots in the S2 cell either, as they all seem like imports (based on this article: Can/Will power spots be able to be submitted to upgrade to Pokestops? - #2 by cyndiepooh)
That said, there are people in the picture, which I hadn’t noticed when I first uploaded it. I have taken new pictures since without people (below).
Should I submit a new wayspot, (and if so how to make it more clear it’s a fitting location, or get flagged as a duplicate) or submit an appeal through the website (and how to submit a new photo with an appeal)?
The wayspot appeals section is reserved for special appeals so this will be moved into Nomination Support
That being said, the rejection reason about faces in the photo is right. I suggest requesting a new wayspot with the pictures you have showed without the faces.
Also, this nomination does not look very promising right now. You are submitting a local restaurant I think? How is this restaurant important to the local community? Does it have good reviews? Can you provide a link in the supporting info to emphasise this is a local restaurant. Your description can defenitely be improved with these suggestions.
Thank you for the welcome, and for moving it to the right section.
I can submit a new wayspot then. I’m mainly not sure how to give clarity to the description.
The location is cooperatively owned food grocery store, servicing a number of small towns in the area that don’t have a grocer or supermarket. A coop (shortening of cooperative) means it’s owned and run by the community that use the service, in this case being those who shop there can take an active part in deciding how it is operated. This tends to be rare, so I wanted to make them easier to notice.
It’s one of the few places in town where you can sit & socialize, the others being a small park and a restaurant with outside seating area for customers. They also host regular events. It’s where I would meet up with someone new to the area, given it’s got a big sign and is right by the intersection of the two roads that go through town.
Would this be enough? I think the location would count as being notable/unique, a good place to be social, and easy to find. I was worried this would be too much info for the description box.
With what you described this can defenitely be eligible. Try to include these facts you just said in the description and any other information like links or why this is important to the local community in the supporting information sector. That being said, it might be hard to convince the reviewers that this is important to the local community, but
This seems like one of those great places that is going to be hard to convey to reviewers the importance to the community, especially with “Generic business” being a rejection reason.
That is an a well used notice board I see in your supporting photo. Community bulletin boards are often understood to be a great place to discover opportunities, so you might have better luck submitting the notice board.
The picnic table could also be submitted as a picnic area.
The noticeboard would be a much easier submission to get accepted. Since there isn’t room here for the noticeboard as well as the store, just go with the noticeboard. Plus the seating since the cell boundaries work out nicely.
Thanks, this really helps. I hadn’t realized bulletin boards were counted that way, but that seems much more straightforward than trying to explain the co-op. I’ll submit that and the seating area.
Also, what program is that map with S2 cells from? The closest I was able to find was using Pogomap.info and trying to guess given the how blurry satellite view is. Some forum posts used images from the actual map of wayspots, but I couldn’t find any way to gain access.
this is iitc, a variation on the map for ingress portals, with a pogotools overlay. since ingress is no longer a part of the scopely family, this no longer updates with new wayspot information, and will get further and further from pogo as time goes by. but the overlay for the cells is accurate.
i can’t directly link to pogotools because of forum rules about the type of file, but have been told i may post a screenshot so you know you have found the right thing if you want to pursue downloading it. If you search on “pogotools” you want this one:
it has a readme explaining all you need to download to set it up if you choose to bother with it at this point. i still find it valuable. there is a tool to manually add in pokestops, gyms, and powerspots that are not showing there as portals.
