Ingress had 100km, from what I recall. However, I am mostly ok with 10km limit. However, I wouldn’t object to a reasonable widening of where we can submit…. but I can also see how it can be abused.
No it was 25km for submissions, 50km for location edits, and 100km for title description and photo edits
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Someone will try to apply standard naming convention to every church wayspot they find on the map?
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thank you, already forgot that. 25km was ideal. I dont want to ride the much-abused “abuse” horse, so id just say if someone wants to abuse wayfarer there is no difference between 10km and 25km.
Theres a plethora of good rural wayfarers out there that could easily have a better life if they dont have to travel 25km to submit something they could just do from the web.
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@NianticAaron replied to a comment above where I said the 10km limit was preventing me from submitting some rural (moorland) wayspots, while the Ingress limit was in range, and said that was a useful example for them to take on board, so I think an extension is being considered.
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For me, my typing on a phone is dreadful, so being able to head back home to write up the descriptions of what I have found is how I am submitting things in Ingress. (It’s still unsafe for Ingress to use placeholder text and use upload later, because the actual upload later takes a lot longer than for Pokemon Go.) I’d be doing to the same for Pokemon Go, except my recent explorations were around 15km away as the crow files.
It’s not just the rural players who would benefit, but also those players who explore rural areas but happen to be based in suburbia. Most of these POI I will rarely visit, so they’re not just for me 
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I have not been able to use the web submission form because my computer’s location is incorrect and about 25 mi away from where I really am. I think it’s based on my internet provider’s IP address. Perhaps an exception could be made to the distance rule if the wayspot and the photos’ location are in the same place. Perhaps adding an additional requirement that the phot be recent. For now, I’m still submitting on my phone, but it would be nice to have a real keyboard and full-sized screen for submitting.
Just adding some bug reports for web submission:
Hello Wayfinders,
Thank you all for your patience while we fixed the issue impacting Pokémon GO submissions. Now that it’s fixed, we were able to roll back out the Wayfarer Web Submission improvements from last week. As of 1.5 hours ago, all users should be able to see their improvements when submitting nominations through the Wayfarer website.
-The Wayfarer Team
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Yeah, my location in Chrome on my laptop is still off, but not as bad as it used to be, just a little over 1k.
Edit Dec 3rd: Now I’m in another city entirely on my laptop using Chrome, a 50 minute drive by car away, about 72k.
I’ve also noticed that Google Maps can’t find my location in Chrome on my laptop, and puts me quite a distance away.
Your browser’s location comes from your public IP. Computers have rarely GPS chips.
ISP usually reports some public information like city. Example my ISP reports my location to another city where their headquarters are. It is just 180km difference for me.
Also it depends what kind of IP location database wayfarer is using. Example you can check from What is My IP Address? your public IP location…
Also it would be privacy issue if your ISP reports publicly this IP 1.2.3.4 is from Streename1 Building2A, Town, Country.
I don’t think staff has confirmed how location is being obtain for the web submissions, except that you do have to enable location settings for the web browser you are using. This suggests that ISP isn’t being used, but the location that the web browser is providing is. They may never confirm this also, as if we fully knew, then it’s possible that it could be abused by some.
Yeah, that’s a chatbot answer, so not from staff.
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The Wayfarer team doesnt control how your PC/device handles its location settings.
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There’s still issues for some of us, even after trying multiple things to correct our location, which I have done.
Really, this isn’t something to argue about. Just let sleeping dogs lie.
Yes and my screenshot shows how the device settings can make its location not exactly accurate… specially if it is using the IP address as suggested.
In a post above, I suggested that the Wayfarer team could use recently visited in-game locations as better location validation (and also allow people to submit in areas farther away, as long as they were recently visited). I’m not sure why the post was censored — I think the idea could genuinely help.
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Yes, I remember seeing that post as well before it was removed. I also think that we don’t need to be arguing about why this isn’t working for some, even after they have tried to get their location’s correct on their devices, it’s very likely that the web submission was most likely built more for mobile devices on Android/iOS than PC OS systems, like Windows.
Let staff figure this out. There no need to keep pushing when many of us that are having issues with location have tried many different fixes but nothing has worked. Hence why I said let sleeping dogs lie, which means best to just let be. Last words are not needed in this instance.
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