Niantic is Making Location Edits to Improve Map Quality
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From Wayfarer forums but sharing here too as fields may go down and portals may vanish
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From Wayfarer forums but sharing here too as fields may go down and portals may vanish
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Oh boy, fouresquare 2.0. Brace yourselves...
Why do I have a feeling this ends up backfiring… It’s like no one can leave well enough alone…
I’m sure Niantic had the best intentions with the four square debacle and look where it got them. I’m still a little confused why they want to mess with areas that have a “healthy” density already. Generally speaking, healthy means good. So, why the change?!?
guess we’ll see what happens *grabs popcorn*
Think many portals simply dont exist anymore or are just so badly misplaced ( pogo gym cell abuse ) etc.... if u are at the portal location u shouldnt have to go 50meter to the correct irl i guess many are like this, in usa i hear all the time how badly placed many are.
The only real issue with this figure, is it's 15k portals in a handful of major cities. So while the vast majority of people will be unaffected, there's a far higher chance you'll notice, in those cities.
Really interested where the data is coming from. ... By that I am interested it how they are going to manage edits for 15000 wayspots!!!!
I would guess it's gis-data related to installation details.... but how to know what poi to move closer to the location.......
Looking at the locations they picked, it seems to be Niantic office/employee cities.
So the edits would likely come from employees which Niantic would trust more than us,
So fixing all those portals pogo keeps moving around? Oh goody!
Time to get rid of all the fast food portals? Errr "murals".
Will the abusers be punished?
Doubtful. Are they ever punished? We have a town nearish to me that has soo many junk portals going live everyday its nearly disgusting. In their portal edits for that area is often the select the top or bottom edit to reveal a hidden wayspot. I've reported dozens of these, yet I never stop seeing them, and some of them have already gone through as moves.
Instead of fixing stuff at the start, they wait til after its mucked everything up. There are soo many easy filters they could do within the Wayfarer application to prevent most of this junk from either becoming a portal or even being reviewed (new poi and edits/moves). Instead of fixing it before it happens, they are mopping it up slowly after the fact. With millions of players from a certain game who "profit" from moving poi's around, or submitting every piece of **** (the Taco Bell Mural one is a nice showing of what frequently could be prevent) they see, its always going to be a catchup game with Wayfarer. They simply don't even try to prevent it.
Pogo ruined portal quality. Yeah it wasn't perfect before Pogo, but there is a notable decline in quality since.
TBH all the stuff I saw in the OPR beta proved that PoGo submissions weren't any worse. However, I will agree that allowing PoGo players to review and move the rating zeitgeist away from quality did make it far worse.
There's a lot of gaming the system ... There's some beautiful pogo contributors can we somehow keep them but tell the others to go home?
It comes down to quality control. There's some gawdawful Ingress reviewers too, so it's not completely the game, just that there's 10x more PoGo reviewers.