"[NEWS] Niantic moves one step closer to opening up submissions on a large scale"

#PokemonGO: TL;DR: as of today L8+ Agents in Brazil & Korea can submit new portal candidates to Portal Recon (full message at the bottom)Now before commenting up a rant stampede, here's some bullet points: What we know:Portal Recon (PR) is a review tool for portal submissions (invite only access) currently in beta for some countries.PR has already gotten us 9 000 new pokéstops (not bad given how small the current test area is)Agents love remote points of interest (PoI), rural will improveThis is not the end. It is but the next step towards increased numbers of PoI everywhere. What we may expectA. Both PR & submissions will be expanded to new areas (personally I also expect submissions to open for Trainers at one point, we do have that camera taking up an item slot after all)B. This will take time. In case you were wondering why building an iron clad review tool needs to take time, just have a look at Portal Coal (these are some of the SFW troll submissions clogging up the system) What I would recommendStart researching local points of interest (based on these candidate criteria)Record them by snapping a picture with your phone (toggle "add gps location" on so you can easily find it back later on).Consult with cultural heritage online databases, religious patrimonium databases, village tourism office, local history society or hiker's clubs for PoIs you didn't even know where around (there's more interesting stuff locally than you may suspect)Push for tiny libraries. They count and can be placed almost anywhere.Don't be a dina about this. It's a process and we're moving into a good direction.Also don't be a dina by submitting garbage. That's only gonna prolong the process for everyone.  SourceAgents,Starting today, we will be opening Portal submission requests via the Ingress scanner for Level 8+ Agents in Brazil and Korea. Before submitting potential Portal candidates, please ensure that you familiarize yourself with the guidelines for high-quality Portals. Portal submissions will be analyzed in the Operation Portal Recon tool by our Beta-tester Ingress Agents. While not all Portal submissions will be accepted, your contributions will enable us to expand the Portal network in the future. As always, we appreciate the diligence and help provided by our Agents to help curate and expand the Portal Network.For full details regarding high-quality Portal candidates, please review the following guidelines: http://ift.tt/2pODOen Ingress team via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2pPpl4U