If you are level 40 you can do this?
Thanks
Yeah, you do need to be level 40.
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The one issue I have with the system at present (as a UK reviewer) is one of the legit examples we’re shown on logging in is a UK postbox. Thing is they are common as muck and have no historical or cultural importance, but as Niantic have suggested they are fine word has got out and in Ingress you’re seeing them everywhere as portals and I find myself struggling to find a reason to reject them (tbh out in the countryside it can be the only option for a fair distance, plus they normally have safe access).
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I want to edit the photos, but it’s not possible at the moment. Hopefully it will be soon. There’s an old mural that doesn’t exist anymore, photo of the city center taken in the dark, you can barely see anything (who approved that?!), church has been renovated, some photos are blurry, some are taken from a bad angle, some would look better if they were taken during summer and so on.
Same here. I know a Pokestop with a Photo you can’t see anything on because of the sun. Also, I have a nomination being rejected for bad photo quality, even though it still was at least ten times better than SunPhoto PokéStop. 
I just had a playground being rejected with the reason it didn’t meet the acceptance criteria. 
These lame nonsense reasons can be so stupid that they are funny sometimes. Not even a second reason was given, so I honestly have no idea why this playground got rejected. Fortunately, my country hasn’t gone in lockdown yet, so I’m renominating it.
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Had to share this one, too. How can more than 50% of the reviewers not see this?! The distance shouldn’t matter either as I have only located it just a few meters away. I have had a nomination being accepted that I accidentally placed wat farther away than this. These reviewers really shouldn’t have permission to review.
I also had a nomination being rejected because it was not visible on Streetview. I even said it wasn’t visible on Streetview because what I nominated hasn’t been there for that long. Apparently many reviewers don’t even read what I write, either.
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What language do you have to review/post submissions in? I have a few spots I would like to review stops and I’m considering writing some stuff in Spanish. lol
It would be best to write them in the native language of the country it’s in, unless it’s a site named in a specific language otherwise.
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I write the title and description in Dutch when im submitting home, and in English when im elsewhere. Supporting info i always do in English. When i review stuff ive seen 4 different countrys so far and i cant imagine its any different for people in those countrys. So its best to pick the one that most (all actually nowadays) countrys arround here learn.
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Figured out hard work doesn’t pay off. I somehow managed to get another Gym (the left one on the picture) within map view from my home, but this was the worst choice out of all possible PokéStop I can see from my home. Before it became a Gym, it had been a PokéStop since the release of Pokémon GO, and I seriously have NEVER been there. Not even once. It was the only PokéStop there, and there were almost no spawns somewhat close to the Stop. There are also already two Gyms, relatively close to it, with almost no activity.
The new Gym only has one Pokémon in it and there hasn’t been any activity or in it for 20 hours now.
I seriously have started to wonder how Niantic’s Gym System works, but not the way it should work. If adding PokéStops doesn’t work, then I’ll have to remove Gyms in order to spread them out more over the area.
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Here are the rules for creating Gyms in Pokemon GO:
In a single S2 level 14 cell you can have 1 Poke stop and 0 Gyms. If you add another Poke stop, the oldest Poke stop becomes a Gym. When you add the sixth Poke stop, you get another Gym. So it goes like this:
- Number of Poke stops / Number of Gyms
1 / 0
2-5 / 1
6-19 / 2
20-34 / 3
35-64 / 4
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Well most of that is just not true…
You got the numbers necessary for a gym right, except that it stops at 3.
If you see 4 gyms in an area it is because there were 3, and then a 4th got moved there from a level 14 cell near it.
There is a cell somehwere out there (i forgot where and i cant find a post about it this quick) that has 1 stop in each of its 64 level 17 cells and no 4th gym showed up.
Also its not the oldest stop but the one that has the most combined “likes” on its portal photos in Ingress. We used this system to get a new stop immideatly turned into the 3rd gym here so it would become an EX.
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I did manage to turn a PokéStop that popped up in early 2018 into a Gym, so that’s definitely not the oldest one. 
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Thanks. I hope that is going to help me. I wonder why I see so many Gyms close to each other though, but they are probably spread over two Level 14 cells, then.
Yay! My first submission was accepted!
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That’s the info I found. It’s probably not up-to-date. But, in my case it was always the oldest Poke stop that became a Gym.
I passed the test, for some reason when I started reviewing the first few were in California, and the next few were in Louisiana, Mexico, and Canada??? And one in Baja California.
I heard you can chose your home location and temporary location, where do you do that?
In your settings.
I got it.
For some reason after choosing LA, they put that as a street in LA and I was still able to choose my home city which is in LA city and LA county. So I ended up doing both, and I still got a random street name for my home city.