I've got to learn a lot in these two months as a wayfarer and I'm very grateful to everyone for their insights and advice and support. And huge thanks to the people who guided me at the time of embarking on this journey. Thanks to those who taught me important things in the comments of my posts regarding wayfarer and to those who redirected me to many articles so I could read up on and learn about this. 😄 We got 2-3 new players from this area and I'm very happy to see the community growing. Perhaps someday we'll have community ambassador meet ups here. Endless possibilities with each new accepted nomination.

Returning player who used to go through a lot of submissions during the Ingress days and since recently moved houses.

I've heard the limitations on waypoints have eased up a little.

I've read that insect hotels nowadays are quite acceptable as waypoints? What are the limitations on them? Can they put next to someone's house on the public road and be accepted? Or are there specific rules to be followed.

Hi, why some pokestops are not appearing in pokemon go? I’ve been adding pokestops, but some of them aren't appearing in the game, even though several days have passed since Niantic accepted them.

I linked an email and a Facebook account but it still wont let me nominate it. Is this a bug or did I do something wrong?

Hi everyone,

I recently submitted my first pokestop. It's a relatively small public park in an area that isn't very dense with pokestops. There is another one nearby, but it's about a 5–10 minute walk away.

If everything passes the criteria, how long does the approval process usually take?

It's been a while since I've posted here (with the sheer amount of nominations I can make with the new rating system, doing posts every 50 stops I make has become a bit hard to keep up with, I'm at around 635 added now), but I was able to snag some before and after photos for a park that was practically empty before I showed up.

What started as exactly 1 pokestop (which became the blue gym in the after photo) that was just the park entrance sign, became 10 stops in the park/across the street, and 2 gyms, both of which I was able to get to spawn in the park proper by holding some of the nominations while the gyms promoted. This also made the park easily the most built-up PoGo play area in the general vicinity. Even created a route involving my new stops for good measure when I made my return trip there.

I'm honestly shocked nobody built this up before I did, as there was a pavillion, playground, tennis court, and a full-blown exercise course that had multiple permanent exercise stations. That's not even including the extra stuff I found across the street.

Love making these Wayfarer timelapses.

Hello, ive been having trouble with finding correct information about how to submit a dynamax spot that was not community made but from the database. I got rejected due to the fact it was a duplicate which is reasonable but is there any way to get Them to reconsider the idea? It’s a fishing spot in my neighborhood where lots of locals spend time and me and my friends have been trying to submit it as a pokestop for almost 4 years now.

Hello! I am trying to nominate this Sea Park. It is located directly in the ocean, but my submission keeps getting rejected for being 'Unsafe or Inaccessible.' The Google Maps satellite view hasn't been updated yet, but in real life, the ground level has been covered by the ocean, officially turning it into a Sea Park

Any Advice?

Hi!

I live in a very rural area. We don’t have a ton of things that can be added as stops, but we do have hundreds of subdivisions.

They all have the fancy brick signs.

But every one I’ve tried to add has been declined.

Yet in other areas I see subdivision signs that are Poke stops.

Is there some wording or key words to use or avoid to be successful?

Any tips would be appreciated!

Here’s an example of one that was declined.

i have been trying to create pokestops as of late and the only thing that seems to get approved are community signs in my area. everything that is of interest that i would actively want to walk/explore to see gets rejected because it doesn't have a plaque!

My community has a cool display of old native american grinding/milling stones integrated into landscaping that you can walk to and look at that is both culturally and historically interesting, but AI refuses to let it pass because its rocks with no plaque?

edit: Thank you for a lot of the feedback, i included most recent example post in comments. i guess the other question i have is categorizing stuff like this as a lot of is not in the pre-structured drop down options.

I'm new to reviewing and can't find information about this one. It is a park which inherently promotes socialization, exercise, and exploration... but it is just a general sign that doesn't really have much meaning at all. They already have a wayspot at the entrance sign and at the memorial garden place. I figure this would be a rejection, but I see wayspots like this all the time when I click around nearby while I've been reviewing. If this is a rejection, how would y'all go about rejecting it? Like what specific things would you vote no on...

Any input is appreciated. This is my first poke stop nomination and I was certain all criteria was met but I guess not?

There are many cycling routes and trails around my area which are very nice and definitely significant to the local community however they only have very generic signs or no signs at all. Is it possible to get a submission like that accepted? If the main picture is the generic sign but the description is about the path and what makes it a good place to exercise and explore?

Any wayfarers know if more likes on this location would push it in-game? I have posted several in the area but 3 of them are white. Any help is welcome.

Hey all - new here.
There a state survey marks located in key locations throughout NSW and many are pokestops. I have tried and failed to add some in my own suburb, repeatedly denied because they are not acceptable under wayfarer criteria. I guess legacy ones are fine.

But today I’ve logged in to see new pokestops and gyms in the suburb near mine, and nearly all the new stops are State Survey Marks.

Begs the question - what do I have to do to get the ones in my suburb approved???!

Any help would be great.

I’d like to appeal or resubmit, so I’m trying to make my nomination better. Can anyone tell me what’s wrong?

I got really curious about this lately.

Are there still any tool add ons? Mainly looking for one that shows the S2 grid. I used to use ingress Intel, but it doesn't get the latest pogo submissions.

These are 2 submissions of mine at a local church, one of a set of ping pong tables and one of a playground. Do you guys think these look good to be nominated? Also should I use an upgrade on either one of them?