In my study of 80 legacy historical anchors across a connected four-town network spanning 13.8 km², I reviewed 346 total stops. To ensure precision, I verified 80% of the map layout via Wayfarer.
My field methodology involved thoroughly walking both the small town and the first mid-sized town. Meanwhile, the largest town has been walked through about 50% thoroughly and has had 75% of its total stops checked. I sourced all 80 anchors by auditing historical photos inside the Wayspot info tabs.
Notably, reviewers had not touched this area in five years until I began submitting nominations to provide a better density for each town and to improve the gaming experience. These submissions focused heavily on sports and sporting fields, community signs, and open green areas encouraging community engagement, exercising, exploring, or socialising.
The Small Town (0.5 km²): Thoroughly walked on foot. Initially held 10 POIs, 2 anchors, and zero anomalies. I secured 8 approved nominations by filling empty sporting fields and open spaces, alongside 3 to 5 new Dynamax spots.
First Mid-Sized Town (3.8 km²): Thoroughly walked on foot. Features 112 POIs, 23 anchors, and 27 of my approved nominations. It contains 3 dual-occupancy anomalies that became legacy dual-occupied wayspots this year. One was caused by a real-world player location edit, while the other two were forced by backend map syncs into connecting Level 17 cells containing old historical anchors.
Second Mid-Sized Town (3.7 km²): Holds 22 stops. This includes 8 visible stops scattered across the town grid, with the other 14 being a whole big trailhead marking system that is already live in the game. Because this location hasn’t been checked over by the map yet, I can’t refer to how old any stop is in this location at the moment, and since I haven’t stepped foot inside it or touched it with nominations, it remains completely unverified on the ground.
Largest Town (5.8 km²): Features 178 POIs, 55 anchors, and 5 of my approved nominations. This layout is actively being investigated, with the tracking currently sitting at 50% walked thoroughly and 75% of its total stops checked to uncover unknown anomalies.
Are there any official tools I could use to double-check my findings, or does Niantic not provide official tools to show S2 cells without having to install a plugin?
I don’t understand why you care about uncovering anomalies? In the past, game status did not reset when a location edit was done. These will stay on the game board unless something happens to cause staff to recalculate the density rules in a location. When reported as bugs, the usual response is that there is no bug.
Using the wayfarer map, locations are removed automatically if the wayspot is removed by Scopely Explore. This is the best map to use to see which wayspots exist.
It is unusual to find S2 L17 cells with two active pokestops/gyms. This can be from:
historic abuse that hasn’t been cleaned up, because one of the wayspots has recently moved and the recalculation hasn’t happened;
imported features;
something else which allows this crowding to happen but no-one (outside Scopely Explore) know what this something else is.
I don’t care though it would be interesting to share what I find but anyways sorry I thought it would create interest
If it just going to start a fight I’ll log off
I don’t see how I have said anything that would indicate a fight. I have asked questions to try to understand what you are saying. I will stop replying if I am coming across as fighting you.
No it’s was the way you spoke in your first message but it was a dussion I think that should have multiple opinions I don’t mind heated discussion if you curious about it. I just photos and interesting topic being that it’s a rural area and it hasn’t been touched in over five years only by rural players area some spotlight
The title is to catch people’s attention I named it that also because it hasn’t been viewed by a reviewer in over five years so I thought I would bring the area back to life aka unlocking dead zone
Ty for explaining. Usually when I see something called a “dead zone” it refers to places that have had game locations turned off by property owners. (I have muted this topic so you don’t need to bother to answer any questions I asked, but thanks.)
You’re all good I was expecting people to have their own opinions and that’s totally fair. Can I ask What you mean when you say game location turned off?
Sorry but this is once again a situation where your AI really isn’t making it easier to understand what you meant, wanted to convey or discuss, and where readers cannot understand if the sweeping generalizations or incorrect statements come from you or from the AI. When one does a study, as you say in your first sentence, especially one that involves extensive walking, one generally also says what the goal of that study is. It would also be great to understand what your question is.
My entire goal for this study was to just see what a rural area that hasn’t been touched by reviewers looks like including how many older stops are there compared to the newer locations I’m sorry I found it’s a bit interesting to see how a area looks after years without reviews