How practical are OPR rules?
Should this candidate be approved as a portal?
My answer is "No, there is no pedestrian access leading to the object in the roundabout". (with accordance to Niantic rules)! But hey, guess what? It's already a portal! https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=11.942692,108.436953&z=21
https://www.google.com/maps/@11.9428343,108.4367049,222m/data=!3m1!1e3
It's not safe, but there's people and vehicles going around this portal.
So my question is, what's the point of OPR test if the rules cannot be practically followed by everyone... What Niantic consider unsafe, might be a normal thing in other countries. Then why judge me/my answers by their rules, especially when in the end what applies is my local community rules. Agents in my community all judge candidates based on their own experience that they gain by nominating portals and then seeing what gets rejected and wat is usually approved.(OPR rating is the cause for this. Agents have no choice but to follow other OPR agents like sheep otherwise bad OPR rating...)
So i strictly follow Niantic rules while taking the OPR test, but never mind IRL!?
What's your thought on this, agents?

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From screen and from link I can't see very well where the portal is located.
However, if it is in a roundabout it should not exist following the NIA rules to the letter even if I personally find them a little too taxy about it. The access under the portal seems to be there, the problem is to reach it perhaps, I cannot understand.
@Jac1891 Here: Satellite view. You can view 360* too. https://www.google.com/maps/@11.9428343,108.4367049,222m/data=!3m1!1e3
Everything is a mess! The google image 360* doesn't even show the candidate. Nothing is clear, yet my 1 answer will decide if i'm eligible to review OPR. :/
I got this exact same question in my OPR test. I understand your doubts and I asked myself the exact same questions.
There are a lot of things going on. First the google maps image they give you doesn't even show the POI. I had to open google maps and try one of the many photospheres until I got one that showed a good view. I ended up answering yes to the question (I passed the test) because although I can't see a clear zebra crossing, there were a lot of people inside the roundabout standing near the POI and the roundabout itself has sidewalks which are clearly meant to be accessed by pedestrians.
I think a good definition for pedestrian access is having a platform/sidewalk/footpath that are designed to have people standing there.
@Eucalipt0 I answered no and i passed too. 🤨
I think this is why reviews have to be localized. There are less developed countries which does not always have pedestrian access (including sidewalks, etc.) but they are perfectly safe for access.
@Rebilander 100% agreed.
So reviews are for the most part in at least 4 categories.
Your local s2 level 8 or 9 cells and I believe 3 square radius around you account for nearly a third of your candidates. I can't remember the exact numbers but the Ingress OPR subreddit and the Ingress subreddit had documentation and images representing the data. I am pretty sure it is accurate since I have reviewed over 20,000 candidates and it feels like they match up.
The next section is home location if you have it set up and I feel like they account for a sixth of my candidates.
The third section of reviews is your bonus location. I actually almost never get bonus location candidates but I get it maybe 3% of the time. I speculate that there's not enough players to actually submit for the area to actually have an impact in me seeing a lot of candidates. I actually think I reviewed most of the candidates here that were in limbo too because I sporadically see 14 candidates every month or two now and only saw a lot of candidates in my initial reviewing stage for the area nearly 8 to 9 months ago now. For other reviewers I believe this will be a lot higher but its dependent on where you choose for this location and I believe the same applies for home location.
The final category is I believe dependent on your home country and simply the geographical width of your country. For example I went to India and reviewed heavily there and I saw India candidates from s2 cells I was not close to at all. I had gone to a certain 3 middle east countries which are smaller and got other nearby country candidates. In Europe in 2 certain larger countries I only saw candidates within those country. These were all during my visits to said countries. In my own local area which is Texas, I see candidates from all over the US, Hawaii and Alaska are super common and I have never gotten anything remotely that far when I visited other countries besides for my bonus/home location. I occassionally see Mexico candidates too for about maybe less than 1% of my candidates. This category which is dependent on your geographical location is almost 50% of my candidates.
So despite the idea that people think it's not local candidates you see. There is a clear influence on the country you review in since you will see candidates from all over that country no matter where you are by the looks of it. So despite your speculations @Rebilander and @SouLPrison3r I already think geographical location is factored heavily into the system and that its dependent on the countries reviewers to determine if that candidate has an accessible sidewalk or not. In India the picture you posted @SouLPrison3r it would be approved simply because over there anything that is on the street is accessible and if you saw the large amounts of free flowing traffic you would realize that they don't consider that type of location inaccessible. However the main issue seems to be of whether or not your country will consider it pedestrian accessible or not at least that's the opinion I have after reviewing 20,000+ candidates.
I see your point @SouLPrison3r . If one would follow NIAs rules to the point this one should not be a portal since there seems to be no safe crossing for pedestrians (according to Google maps). But if you look at the streetview photos: hey, there are even benches to sit on within the roundabout. I'd say stick to what is local custom, what is accepted locally, keep your common sense - and keep this one as a portal.