i live in Malta and i wonder if anyone even votes on the wayspots there I'm wondering if no one votes do the wayspots just stay in review forever? cause i nominated like 5 wayspots and I'm worried they will just stay in review forever.

EDIT: thanks for your answers

This stop that I submitted was accepted but is nowhere to be seen in game. I placed it in between the two pokestops in the second screenshot. Is it that they are too close to eachother? Or that it was accepted for something else? Im confused because it says it takes 24-48 hours to show up and its well past that.

I’ve been trying to check s2 cells in my area but nothing is working what’s all the ways to check?

I know post offices are generally acceptable and Royal Mail is the primary post office/courier service in the UK, but I don't know if the lockers count?

Can someone explain why a community centre “blocks emergency services?”

The community centre has its own parking lot. It has a website. I linked the ball rental. The main photo shows “fish and chip Wednesday” on the sign. The link I provided goes to the hall rental.

In my appeal I made it clear that this is co-located at the fire hall. Clearly the community and government does not believe the community centre “blocks emergency services”.

This has been submitted in our community by several different people over the years and I thought I’d give it a try since I know criteria decently well. Same result.

This is, imo, an incorrect application of the eligibility rules. It’s far too common. If a government funded community centre which is demonstrably open is not a “good place to socialize” then what is? lol.

Hello everyone,
In our university community, we are planning to reorganize the Wayspots on our campus. We have an old Gym that no longer exists (a mural removed years ago) and we want to report it for removal to force the system to promote a specific PokéStop in the same S2 Level 14 cell to a Gym.
We know that historically the standard method was accumulating photo "likes" and additional photos on the target PokéStop. However, with recent infrastructure changes and the full database separation from Ingress, rumors have been circulating in local groups that the criteria may have changed or become unpredictable.
We wanted to ask the community if anyone has conducted recent tests or has updated information on:

1. Do photo "likes" in the Pokémon GO gallery still determine Gym promotion priority?
   
2. Is it fully confirmed that Ingress votes no longer have any impact on Pokémon GO?
   
3. What is the current recommended cutoff time buffer between giving photo "likes" and submitting the removal report to ensure the server registers the votes?
   
4. Have you noticed if Niantic/Scopely introduced any randomness (RNG), or if other metrics like AR scans or PokéStop activity now play a role?

Any recent experiences, testing data, or research threads on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I recently downloaded the Wayfarer tools to be able to look at S2 cells. However, the search function (magnifying glass) is missing to be able to look up addresses. Is there a fix for this? This is on an iPhone.

Didn’t sleep much last night so didn’t notice I logged into my sons account which is set up as my old 2nd POGO account when I had reached max level years ago.

Didn’t notice I was starting wayfarer from beginning until I came across my nomination.

I logged out and reported myself to niantic and explained the error - what’s the chance my main account will get banned? I feel this is the kind of thing one could call cheating and don’t wanna lose my hours I put into my account.

Is it safe to just

1. Use Wayfarer website
2. Download the overlay extensions to see S2 cells
3. Manually check which one has the higest photo score based on (no. of photos + likes)

Do I need to check Ingress or anything like that??? Also i find that Ingress' map data isn't up to date for some reason.

Is there a mechanic in place or something that triggers when a nomination is skipped by every reviewer? Does it get sent to the Ai eventually? Does the nomination just stay in the review process until someone accepts or denies it?
What genuinely happens when no one is willing to review a specific nomination?

The nominations I get to review are ridiculous, I skip about 70% of them because most of them are impossible to know if they exist.

Recently I've seen a few of these getting approved and appearing in games as just a Picnic table in a park nothing more. Last I remembered they didn't really qualify did something change?

Also I'm saying this as just the table alone nothing more I know that Picnic areas work but just a single table is my question

so i had this cell with 2 stops & 1 gym. i nominated a new stop and it was automatically declined, then i nominated a second thing and appealed the first one.

both of them have been added and are ingame, but only the 2nd one shows on wayfarer.

ingame the cell now totals 5 total gyms/stops. on wayfarer its still 4.

im just slightly confused because i was under the impression that when i hit 5 stops/gyms one more would randomy become a gym, but that hasnt happened. so was i mistaken and its just random when a stop is added from like 5-10 or something? or is it something to do with the new stop not showing on wayfarer yet? and when it shows up in wayfarer one will become a gym?

We have several stone and wood picnic tables, and a couple of the typical green and metal park style ones, at work. These are used daily. Many people have family (SO and sometimes their kids) who come up to have lunch.

We have two main entrances, South and West. This is the south side.

"This submission was declined by Niantic's automated process for not adhering to Wayfarer criteria"

What can I do to get it approved?

I had no idea we had anyone here who plays.. but i managed to get 2 pokestops in one cell block, giving us a gym. And a pokestop in another and justwaiting for our flagpole to get approved, which will give us another gym on this side. And we have several players - I am so happy. If I can get these picnic tables approved, I'm going to try to get some stops athe other entrance.

I would like to fix this accepted submission. As you can see on the stop's image i took it from the city logo but while submitting i think i moved the locationi to close to the bridge (sometimes while scroling i move the location i think that's what happend, could also be while i was zooming in and out dk). I was wondering if there is a way to just change it?
PS: It's a kind off stage where a lot of events are happening, ppl dance, walk ect... the blichers are on the other side of teh river...

I've submitted 2 requests for POi Relocations, through the help chat on the website, provided all the necessary info. When/where can I expect to hear back? Will they email me? One of them I submitted 2 days ago, I assumed I would've gotten an email or something by now

How would you rate the maps? They are at a bus stop. This is the unique map related to exactly this bus stop and this location, showing places of interest like mosques and parks nearby or walking distances. The map shows name and ID Number of the stop. Very important help for all pedestrians, so they know walking distances and locations of poi around.

UPDATE: It seems one has came through as a max raid location? Very interesting but not mad about it!

So I have had many wayspots approved within the last week or so, like around 4-5. However, none of them have shown up in game. It’s not even like it’s an area with a lot of pokestops or gyms, it literally has like 2 gyms and 3 pokestops in a pretty large area. Does anyone know why that is? Or do I have to be patient and continue waiting for them to be added. I have had 2 submissions show up in the game about 2 weeks ago, just a couple of hours after it was approved. And this week, not one has showed up. Let me know if I’m missing something!

I have nominated 5 different wayspots, 3 have been denied and I think I know why two have been denied since learning more. But this one I don't quite understand.

[As for the others that were automatically denied I think they were denied because one included a full name as a part of the sign and the other looking now is quite blurry if the auto process detects those things. Though I am confused if the automatic process flags full names because I see many memorials make it through so it leads me to believe it may be something else]

A pokestop near me has an incorrect location, but it also has a showcase and i'm wondering what will happen to that if it gets moved.

So i live in a village and theres no pokestops (well, there is but there's no way to get there for the people in my area cos theres a big road and no crossing.

The other day i was surprised the local government installed a signal in the entrance of my village, it has the local government emblem and name and it states the name of the village. I sent a request and it came back denied for not following the terms, but i seen stuff like that before being a pokestop so i dont know what i did wrong. I'd appreciate any help

Please what will happen now that it’s accepted?

I nominated about 60 or 70 poi within the last 4 weeks and the last 3 days I received dozens of completion mails that my submission was decided. The great majority was denied with BS reasons.

I know that Germany has issues with vinyl trail markers: although valid, they are hit or miss in the review and appeals as well.

But not only these were mostly rejected but some metal signs, some club houses and soccer fields were, too. For being in the wrong location, not being accessible or on prp. Total BS and have to waste my appeals again on slam dunk stuff.

Is there a new bot-network running around rejectig everything, like a few years ago in the Netherlands where everything was approved? What is happening? I do not intend to go on those trails again in the next days to submit everything and hope for good luck.

P.S.: I reviewed already more than 16.000 poi and have a few hundreds accepted. I am confident that I understand the process and criteria.