Hey y’all
I haven’t had this happen before so I’m just super curious about how to handle it?
I have a park nearby called Dock Park that also features a Dog Park inside of it, the dog park itself is a waypoint and I figured I’d try and also submit the park since the uses are totally separate/different. It was approved, but the spot is pretty far off where I’d submitted it. My concern is, it’s been moved to be smack dab in the middle of the dog park, but the dog park already had its own wayspot.
Original coordinates from my email confirmation was: 40.369015, -111.889308 from where I was standing at the grass area.
The spot it popped up today at is: 40.369122, -111.889989
I guess I’m just curious about, would you press to have it moved to the related spot? Or would you just leave it be since TECHNICALLY it’s just kind of in the middle of the zoned park space?
I guess other other question is, why the heck would someone move it
I found this cool “pogo map” that let me put a visual of these and the relation of the other “dog park” point that’s been there for over a year.
Pic included, I circled in red the perimeter of the entire park, and then in blue I did the dog park inside Dock Park. The yellow highlight on the blue is where the waypoint appeared, and the yellow highlight red triangle is where it was submitted, since that’s the grassy area we set up horseshoes and it’s right in front of the parking lot.
I am very confused here. How is your Dock Park at either of the coordinates you mentioned different from the existing Dock Park Wayspot I see as a portal on iitc?
It does appear that the pin has been dragged to where the Google Maps label is for Dock Park. I have had the team do this when they reviewed a nomination internally. Did your email say this decision was from “our team”?
Reviewers can move the pin in review to correct it. But I would have marked a new submission for Dock Park as a duplicate instead of moving the pin and accepting it.
Ok, so I see 3 Wayspots here, with 2 having the name Dock Park. One is at 40.369413, -111.890119, with a description saying “The Dock Park sign at the Dog Park on Dogwatch.” The other is at 40.369122, -111.889989, with the description of "Green space at the entrance to Dock Park, there is also a Dog Park here. The dog park inside of this park is at 40.369256, -111.890008
Technically, both are eligible to be Wayspots, as one if for the park sign, and one is for the park field. Park signs are still allowed to mark out a park as a larger area, and anything within the park can still be nominated.
If I remember, you were having issues with another field nomination in this area that didn’t really have an anchor or place marker, correct? Was that one also rejected by “our team?”
I feel you may have gotten somewhat lucky with the Dock Park field, even though it already had an existing Wayspot for the entire park with the sign, and the field doesn’t have an anchor/place marker in the photo, but the description notes it as being a field in the park, not the park itself.
Took me a while before i catch the phrase dog park inside Dock Park lol. Anyway reviewer can move nomination if they believe its a better location. You can also edit location if you believe its incorrecly located after approval. But beware moving wayspot away from its actual location is subject to abuse ladder system. Dont move wayspot just because you want to move it to empty cell for gaming purpose. The Dock Park should be located where the photo is(the sign). The same with dog park.
I most likely would have rejected the field POI, as this park seems to mostly be the dog park, along with some walking areas. The grassy area seems quite small, so doesn’t seem like it would be used often for activities and is more there for landscaping.
Yeah! That was my thinking haha, the sign is one I made in like November I think? And the dog park one has been there quite a while.
As for the new one; The grass area works for yard games! we’ve driven our corn hole set there and played. The idea to submit it came from playing on the grass so I submitted after we packed up. It’s small but the area is townhomes/condos with no yards so people use the green space like this, we chose this one for its parking haha. But yeah it was kind of a “well if they approve it, sweet” type of spot. And yeah I’m the one that posted yesterday about the other park! It’s funny because that one being an actual field for soccer and stuff was the one I didn’t even question being approved, and this one was more of the “let’s see” one hahaha.
The tragedy is I’m the one who made the Google maps spot I built in all the local parks, so it’s like a universal full circle kind of energy feeling to it being that the spot moved to where I placed the dang Dock Park location for Google months ago lol.
But the corn hole set isn’t permanent (some parks these days to have permanent corn hole courts), and anyone can bring their own yard games to these areas and then remove them when done. They’re just grassy areas, not actual sports/event fields. There are already quite a good amount of eligible Wayspots here in this development, so trying to push these fields are going to be a tough sell for most, and again, in this case, you most likely got lucky.
There’s nothing on this field that notes it’s a spots/event field, like how many may have fences, name/number signs, goal posts, backstops, etc. There’s a small grassy area at a local park that some use to practice soccer or play volleyball, but there isn’t a permanent soccer goal there, and the people that play volleyball bring the net and poles every time, so it’s not permanently used as a field all the time. Now, the 5 baseball fields, batting cage, and pickleball courts are permanently there, not removed at any time from he park, so they are eligible for Wayspots.
