I understand that the main reason for rejection is the lack of sidewalks around this roundabout, so therefore, Niantic believes there is a risk of pedestrian safety. However, there are a few grassy areas next to the roundabout that are safe for pedestrians to walk and still be in range of the wayspot. Furthermore, the streets of this neighborhood are extremely safe to walk along despite the lack of sidewalks; it is literally impossible to drive around this neighborhood and not see someone walking or biking down the street. What makes this even more frustrating for me is that there are two wayspots nearby that also lack sidewalks and are on considerably busier roads (36.230420, -86.584564 and 36.235163, -86.576621), so I do not understand why those were approved, but my nomination was not.
I do not believe neighborhood signs meet any of the criteria of a great place for exercise, exploration, or being social, even when they are safely accessible. How do you feel it meets criteria? Or did you just submit it because you see some live in game? (This is not a sarcastic question, to be clear.)
As the others have said, these kinds of signs don’t typically meet the criteria, and even if they did, this one is in the middle of a roundabout, and the roundabout doesn’t have a marked crossing to the middle of it, so by the wayfarer guidelines it would lack safe pedestrian access.
This nomination should not have been approved. It is misplaced, and if it was in the correct position, it too would have unsafe pedestrian access, as the object is in a median in the middle of the road with no crossing point. The other nomination you mentioned is a building, and so you can safely access it by design, though the wayspot should really be located at the entrance of the building, and not randomly on the path in front of it.
I see tennis courts, 2 pools, I think a spa pool, a play area, volleyball 2 gazebos and a picnic area.
An American submitter may be better at identifying things but I think if you get the things submitted at the red crosses that would give 5 places which along the club house should mean a total of 2 gyms and 4 pokestops.
The yellow circles would be worth submitting as they have potential to be power spots.
My advice forget about the entrance and turn the club area into a good place to visit.
I believe that the wayspot being in a neighborhood that is commonly walked by pedestrians/residents, it encourages players to walk around and exercise/explore. Also, when I was submitting the wayspot and adding tags, “architecture” and “welcome sign” were two of the possible tags, so I suppose that led me to believe those things were acceptable as waypoints. But to answer your question, seeing other neighborhood signs like mine in-game made me think the precedent for those locations was set, and I am understandably quite upset that I was mistaken.
I appreciate you filling out the map like you did. Since that clubhouse is really my only place to walk to, the tennis courts and playground were definitely on my list for spots to add. Thank you for your suggestion!
This is one of the reasons why many wayfarers really really wish Scopely Explore would remove the Category question from the wayspot submission process in Pokemon Go.
Thankfully, it has been removed from the web submit process at Niantic Wayfarer
The list of categories is worthless to every wayfarer and every player of Pokemon Go. It has no value, no meaning and is completely and utterly pointless in every regard. It exists to gather additional data about wayspots so that Niantic could improve the value of their database for selling to third parties, but it is believed this is now redundant.
This list does not indicate eligibility. It contains clearly ineligible things such as schools.
The only thing it does is confuse new wayfarers who, quite reasonably, think that if something is listed it is eligible. There is no shame in making this mistake, but in future, completely ignore this list (except for picking something from it in order to move past it).
This is also a common mistake to make and it is completely understandable that you made it.
The standard advice is not to pay attention to what is already in the game when working out whether something is eligible, but to use the eligibility rules starting with Social, Exercise, Explore.
Sometimes wayspots are old and were accepted under different rules, sometimes they have additional information in the submission that you can’t see but meant they were genuinely eligible, sometimes they are accepted abusively, sometimes reviewers accept things they shouldn’t.
(If you do see something blatantly ineligible, on school property, on single-family private residential property, in the middle of the road, on a roundabout, in the middle of a pond etc, you can report it easily using the wayfarer map at Niantic Wayfarer)
