Do you guys remember all the selfies and really bad things in review? After you hit Level 40 in Pokemon GO or Level 10 in Ingress Prime, you can submit new Pokestop nominations. When you nominate a PokeStop it to goes to Wayfarer to be reviewed by other players; Once a review of the PokeStop is completed it will be either approved, rejected, is a duplicate, or too close to existing PokeStop. Does the wayspot actually exist where it says it does? Guess we can only eait6to see what it'll bring to the uk. You can buy L40 accts from eBay for pennies, perhaps Professor Willow could introduce some special research that needs to be completed before a PoGo player can submit. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Don’t be tempted to let a poor candidate through because there are no other wayspots around.

It is therefore up to the user to take very high quality pictures to increase chances of approval. 1) It seems like the countries like Germany which are already portal dense are seeing a lot of duplicates like @mothate said however India which I review as a bonus location doesn't have this issue because there clearly seems to be a lack of submitters. The man should not be in the job... My annual Flu Jab has been administered by the practice nurse for as long as I….

Most of them don't even realize it is not niantic rating the portals, but other players (of a different game). I live in the Dallas Fort Worth metro and people are just trying to get valid objects approved I see abuse but the amount of pogo or ingress related titles or descriptions making it to OPR is very small and we figure out who was doing it and told them to stop politely.

If you really want a pokestop to be approved, make some Pokemon artwork and place it somewhere in the busiest part of your town. OPR allowed Ingress players to review portal submissions, voting on whether a portal candidate should or should not be brought into the game. A deep-dive into Wayfarer, taking an in-depth look at everything you need to know about the Niantic Wayfarer Process of adding PokéStops. Hmmm maybe, however pogo players have a tendency to be more blatant about it, at least in their edit submissions they are. It would be very nice to at least force you to read through them at least once. Pogomaps is a community-fed tool used to track POI in an area. I know a lot of people submited new stops but aparently no one was approved yet... or maybe they were all denied... how's PS submission going for people on other places where its allowed? This is a picture from an approved portal, and there is at least more 6 in the same style and more attempts in recon. Submit that for approval. “This whole mural stemmed from an idea I had after his [Etika’s] passing and it really came to life. Yes, that does mean I get 21 per fortnight as a player of both games. And now we get to the final example for this post. I created a Facebook group to try co-ordinate local submissions, prevent duplication of effort and to help educate people as to what makes a good “wayspot” (as Niantic now refer to their POI). All they care about is the validity of the wayspot candidate. Likewise, think twice before rejecting something. Think its just going to be a learning curve, pogo players are going to try and submit anything and everything until they learn otherwise, just like Ingress players did initially. The quality of submissions may well be an issue however to be fair the amount of dross that was initially in the OPR queue from the backlog caused by the seer medal was amazing. In addition to using the above acceptance criteria, we often add nominations that are a special nod to industries and networks that connect people around the world. Is the wayspot blocking access to an emergency service or is it close to a school? Adventurous tourist attractions – think lookout towers, observatories, signs or markers atop mountain peaks, etc. Yes, the screen can timeout after several minutes but you still get enough time to analyse the submission and pass judgement. I know this particular photographer and he didn’t submit the wayspot. It's not like you'd let somebody without a driver's license drive a car, so make them do a test similar to the one qualifying you for OPR. As I’ve already mentioned, I intend to write more on Niantic’s Wayfarer programme, later. To be honest the PoGo players are not the only ones to blame. On second glance after reading the description and supporting information, this is an art installation of sorts. The process is all but identical to submitting via Ingress, except Pokémon trainers only have 7 submissions every fortnight, as opposed to Ingress’s 14. I can't report the abuse on the edits sigh. I 5-starred the location accuracy and updated the “What is it?” information. Pokémon GO sees the world overlaid with S2 cells sized at L14 and L17. In big cities within other portals around, might take months. Exactly the kind of thing Niantic are after. Ben has varied opinions on many subjects and has decided to try focus his addled mind long enough to transfer some of his thoughts into bytes. Certainly worth another go - I just had a really interesting old grave (1815) approved on the 4th attempt which certainly fitted criteria but sadly not all reviewers are familiar with the criteria. But I agree, i like to get good portals more then bad ones. This is all my own opinion and may differ to the opinion of other Wayfarers. You can visit this support page (via Kotaku) to file a … Every one of them wants a pokemon gym a home. I am not biased I even have portals that are not in Pogo. Such include local postal offices, police stations and government buildings. PokeStop nominations are rapidly becoming available for Level 40 players in more and more countries around the globe. To be honest, that’s too deep a level for me, I like to go with my gut on these things. You are also asked to confirm the location at this point. The administration of ingress are the sole decision makers as to w…

OPR is like Tinder except you rate besides the general yay or nay. I’ve been told that new Pokéstops pull through at 18:45 Tuesday to Friday with an update of POI across all games around 18:45 on a Monday. Niantic review never find enough evidence. My experience submitting portals in Ingress is that getting approved/rejected takes anywhere from a week to forever and the "average" time varries wildly based on the location and details of the submissions. Any and all players weer welcome to suggest new portal locations to Niantic.

I just had two from March come through last week. More posts from the NianticWayfarer community, Press J to jump to the feed. Also, the results of the review of your Ingress submissions are always emailed to you. If you ever want to see what’s in an area as base POI, check out Ingress Intel. It’s historic, visually unique and safely accessed. I have submitted 26 Pokestops over the last 4 months. Another good question and one that isn’t as easily answered. I am level 13 in ingress and I hold everyone by the book niantic gave us to vote on. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons! So there is something positive about it. Silver linings and all that .

Where I live I see daily attempts to move arround correct placed portals, obviously just to make another gym/pokestops. It will vary based on the region but abuse goes both ways. Most submissions now require that the player submits a photograph that shows the surrounding area of the submission is safe to play in.

The next step is to give your wayspot a name and description. I just submit valid object and give best judgement. Hopefully we’ll see an increase in POI in out of the way places, making it easier to play all 3 of Niantic’s games. A fellow YouTuber involved with the creation of the mural, Double-A, tweeted an emotional approval of the Pokéstop. Yes I see the abuse but I also figured out quickly who in my area was doing the false edits after I started getting portals tagged with pogo trainer names. They will then have to take good pictures of very high quality of the building and then submit it to the administration. This can be frustrating but there is no way round this, it’s just how Pokémon GO choose to handle the POI available to the game. The biggest problem is that there is nothing happening with the people submitting those abusive stuff. Unlike Ingress and Wizards Unite, Pokémon GO limits the number of POI that can appear within a specific S2 cell. Give them better information about what the purpose of the surrounding area photo is. In this example we see a rather uninspiring photo with very little to it.

Wait times vary greatly depending on the object density of your area. Some people like to use the Google street view app to take a 360 photograph to upload here. @Qwizical This a false statement.

If you click here you can see sunny Huddersfield as it appears with the relevant S2 cells overlaid. To date I’m responsible for 297 Ingress portals and a single accepted submission via Pokémon GO! But likely pogo players using comments like that. That way it forces players from both games to really understand a candidate. Pokestop approval. Niantic have strict criteria as to the POI that they will accept within their global POI database. The problem is, if that shitty portal/pokestops get approved, it will never be removed. NIA created an interesting instument with the upagrades, that also had an positive impact on the opr community. With everyone and their tertiary accounts being Level 40, there needs to be more. I called this one “George Rex Pillarbox”. Public parks are great, high-quality places for Wayspots: they are common all around the world and encourage players to walk, exercise and enjoy public spaces, A nod to education and discovery, a cornerstone of Niantic, Includes little free libraries, provided they are not on private residential property; does not include mobile libraries, A nod to the transportation industry, which also connects and unites people around the world, Accept transportation hubs (like Grand Central Station), but not every single small transit stop (like a subway station or a bus stop). I’d like to add that I questioned the anonymity of submissions at this point. Paying little or no attention to spelling or content. Niantic Wayfarer is a tool by which Niantic farm out the rating and approval or rejection of points of interest (POI) submitted to the global POI database that sits behind their popular augmented reality games: Ingress, Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Reddit's #1 spot for Pokémon GO™ discoveries and research. Perhaps because they don't care as much as they are no longer the ones reviewing the submissions as their POI catalogue grows regardless.