Can I request some inns/fortresses/nurseries for my community?
Thievsly
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I am in a community with a public walking path, gazebo, basketball court, volleyball net, and a long standing dog statue.
I wanted to know if we could get some inns/fortresses/nurseries at some of these spots. There is literally nothing for miles and I'd love to play on my walks. I have pictures and gps coordinates of all of the notable spots but don't know of a way to submit them for review.
35.084801,-79.008615 is the Police Dog statue
35.085507,-79.009167 is the Volleyball Net
35.083808,-79.007678 is the Gazebo
35.083545,-79.007188 is the Basketball / Tennis area
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All the best bruh I hope.they make changes accordingly 🔥🔥 fam
Thanks I hope so too
That is one thing Niantic did REALLY well in Ingress. They allowed submissions for locations. I REALLY wish they'd continue that.
Looking on the Intel map for Ingress, you have a lot of POIs west of you, plus 4 in your local area. You're already way better off than most players.
2 of those are churches that don't take kindly to non members being on the grounds. The 3rd is still a drive away and not accessable to pedestrians. I don't know of the fourth. I am not refuting that others have it worse, not at all. I am aware that some people have absolutely nothing. I was just trying to suggest something for my community. Sorry if you feel that it was an overstep of some kind.
The POI are from the same dataset that Niantic's other games are based on.
In general, POI are places of:
value.
Economic value on its own does NOT make a good POI and K12 Schools are EXPLICITY blacklisted.
And POI must be HUMAN CREATIONS... an ancient tree is not POI worthy.
And all POI require "safe pedestrian access" and need to be open to at least a certain number of people (POI on private single-family residential property are also a no-go). POI that may interfere with emergency services (obviously) are also blacklisted.
Also, keep in mind that the overwhelming number of POI aren't created by algorithms, they have been submitted by players (originally Ingress-players only, recently Pokemon-Players have joined) and have been curated by players (Ingress Players only, google "OPR" for more info) - to ensure a certain quality of POI.
There have been instances of "sponsored POI" in the past that avoided that process but these were usually part of big partnerships (examples of these are "AXA", "SOFTBANK", "CIRCLE-K", "MUFG", which as part of their sponsorship had an item in ingress named after them and all their outlets turned into POI)
To submit new POI, you have to be Ingress Level 10+ OR PokemonGo Level 40.
To join the POI curation program, you need to be Ingress Level 12+.