"Wayspot used in other Niantic Games"

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Just a quick question. I don’t recall coming across this before. I went to submit a couple of nominations that I was made aware of. During the submission on one of the nominations I noticed a marker for the site, so I checked Ingress, Pokemon Go and Peridot (apology for swearing!) and could not see the nomination in any of the games. My main concern is If I submit it, will it get rejected even if they don’t appear in the 3 main games on the grounds of it being “Wayspot used in other Niantic Games”?

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If it does already exist, then likely your submission would get rejected as a dupe, but the images would be merged in with the existing spot.

So, not a completely lost cause…

Still, you could possibly sign up at https://lightship.dev/ and use the geospatial browser there to check.

There are no dings for duplicate spot though. It is not an offense of any kind, just bad luck.

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Oh, or if you’re worried, give the latlng on here and some helpful soul might check for you.

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It doesn’t show up in the Geospatial Browser either.

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I’ll submit it for now, but just find it strange that it says it exists in the Niantic Games when it doesn’t. I suspect it’s a database import from Niantic that supports the Max Spots for Pokemon Go.

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Then you’re probably golden.

Always the chance that someone else already has it in the queue, in which case the end result is the same. But, such is life.

I have several that happened with, going all the way back to 2013. :->

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Hah! Can you tell we didn’t have cool tools for tracking out submissions back then?

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I completely missed the noticed a marker for the site phrase in your post.

So, yeah. I honestly have no clue. But the geospatial browser should be a valid view into the source of truth.

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The only explanation I can think of is it being a Database Import for the Max Spots for Pokemon Go (or something similar). But there is no indicators that it could be seen as a duplicate as it doesn’t appear in any of the games.

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Yes, there’s been a recent change whereby all Power Spot locations now show on the check for duplicates map in Pokémon Go, even though the Power Spots that were imported from a third party database are not part of the Lightship database (and thus wouldn’t be marked as duplicates if submitted).

This was first discussed here and has since been discussed here.

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