our group of players has been nominating landmarks, shops, and other institutions in our town which are open to the public with all definitions and specifications. I’m just wondering why they are all getting declined/rejected, while the other pokestops and gyms in different towns and cities don’t even have a proper description yet they are approved and already added to the game.
We’re also hoping that any rejected nominations should also an indicated reason for such rejection so the community can review or have the speicifications corrected.
Again, we only have around 10 pokestops in our town, and the number of players is already increasing in a short period of time, hope new pokestops/gyms nominated in our area will be accepted to help promote tourism and our local products
You have already appealed this, so I can’t see what the original rejection reason was. Do you recall?
“Generic business” is a rejection reason, so reviewers tend to be more picky about whether a business is significant enough not to be “generic”. My reading vision is poor, so I am just going to ask if you took this picture yourself with your phone’s camera or got it from somewhere else?
From what I can see, I like this nomination. We can talk more about it if the appeal is rejected.
I see Google labels for churches to the north and the south of where it is telling me that school is. Are the churches actually there, and have you tried to submit them? Churches are usually fairly easy to get accepted.
I am not sure what you are asking for. How close they are to each other does not affect them being submitted. If you are wondering how close they can be and be eligible to be used for Pokemon Go, that is a little more complicated. This is a good article about that. A Comprehensive Guide to S2 Cells and Pokémon GO | Pokémon GO Hub
The question for each shop is: Why is it a '‘hidden gem’? Why is it a great place to explore, exercise and / or socialize? A place where you can eat is not sufficient; what makes this foodplace so special? That’s something that you’ll have to answer for each location, including a photo which emphasizes the foodplace.
Besides this: even if you have 10 hidden gems next to each other, and all are accepted as waypoint, at most only 1 or 2 will become a pokestop within Pokemon Go, depending upon other pokestops within the neigbourhood.
That is great advice on how to submit businesses. Make it clear how it is significant to the community. I do not have enough local knowledge to know if Jones Public Market is a great place for exploration, or a place where people go to be social, or if it is just a generic place to buy groceries.
I also don’t have street view there to show you the specific stores, but I can give you an example. Sometimes side by side businesses will be in separate cells, and sometimes they won’t. NEVER pin something where isn’t really to put it in a separate cell. People get banned for that.
Any other business in that red outlined cell will not be eligible to become a Pokestop or gym if that one does.
However if the two businesses had just happened to be in separate cells, they could both become pokestops (or gyms) if accepted.
It can be worthwhile to submit Wayspots even if they won’t be Pokestops or gyms. They could be used as Power Spots, or they could be put into use if the existing Pokestop is removed.
I should give you this list of ideas of things to look for. It was created with rural folks in mind, but is full of great suggestions for anyone. Tips for Rural Nominators
In order to be accepted, a wayspot has to not fail any of the rejection criteria
- it has to be safely accessible to pedestrians
- it can’t be on school grounds, single-family private residential property, farmland
- it has to exist at the location given
- it has to have a reasonably accurate title and description
- the photo cannot contain licence plates, identifiable people, unnecessary animals
- it cannot represent something that already has a wayspot
- the photo must be one that you took and have not posted elsewhere
- it has to be reasonably distinct, not just a random location
It also has to meet one of the key criteria
- Exploration
- Exercise
- Social
Something can meet the key criteria but be rejected because it fails one of the rejection tests.
Something can pass all the rejection reasons but still not be eligible because it simply isn’t meeting criteria. Please have a look at these for understanding what makes a good wayspot.
One suggestion I’ll make is, if a restaurant or shop contains original artwork, it’s often more likely to be accepted if you submit the artwork rather than the business.
And in such cases, if the facility crosses a cell line, it might even be possible to get multiple acceptances there (for separate artworks) that would populate in game. This is also true for churches, particularly Catholic churches (just because, in my experience, they tend to have more artwork - outdoor statuary, fountains, etc).
For example, my favorite restaurant has two wayspots (in game as a pokestop and a gym), representing murals on opposite interior walls in the dining room; the cell line runs through the center of the room. My church has five, including two each that are outdoor statues and memorial plaques.
do you have any suggestions about nomination of food shops? My submissions were all declined, I indicated specific products offered by the shop and even attached photos of the area showing it can be a place for socialization
Food shops almost universally don’t meet Socialisation criteria. You can socialise there, but that is not sufficient, because you can socialise almost anywhere.
Food shops in general do not strongly encourage socialising.
I potentially really like the restaurant. My impression is that appeals reviewers tend to like these less than I do.
If you need to resubmit it… my personal style is to back up everything I say as much as possible with proof. It’s very good that it’s been in business and run by the same family for 40 years. To me that shows it has significance within the community. I would try to find a source that also says this, even if it’s their own website, and include it in the supporting information.
