Criteria

 

Portal Criteria

Portal Criteria Includes:

  • A LOCATION WITH A COOL STORY, A PLACE IN HISTORY OR EDUCATIONAL VALUE
    • Interesting story behind the location/object
    • Historical significance (apart from just being old)
  • A COOL PIECE OF ART OR UNIQUE ARCHITECTURE
    • Statues, paintings, mosaics, light installations, etc.
    • Venues that showcase fine art (e.g., performance art theaters and museums)
    • Buildings designed by renowned architects/structures famous specifically for their architecture
  • A HIDDEN GEM OR HYPER-LOCAL SPOT
    • A popular local spot that you would take a friend visiting your community for the first time
    • A popular spot where locals gather, but may be lesser-known outside the community
    • Tourist spots that showcase local flavor and culture and that make your city/neighborhood unique
    • More off-the-beaten-path tourist attractions (i.e., if you weren’t a local, you wouldn’t necessarily know to go here)
    • Adventurous tourist attractions – think lookout towers, observatories, signs or markers atop mountain peaks, etc.

In addition to the above acceptance criteria there is also a desire to have candidates that offer an acknowledgement or networking opportunity.
These include:

  • PUBLIC LIBRARIES
    • A nod to education and discovery, cornerstones of Niantic & Ingress
    • Includes little free libraries, provided they are not on private residential property; does not include mobile libraries
  • PUBLIC PLACES OF WORSHIP
    • A nod to the otherworldly, which is integral to the story of Ingress

The Portal submission should NOT be or include any of the following:

  • Candidates in locations with NO SAFE PEDESTRIAN ACCESS.
  • Candidates of PEOPLE, BODY PARTS, LIVE ANIMALS, etc.; please, just don’t.
  • Candidates that are NATURAL FEATURES (Includes pictures of landscapes as well as submissions where the subject is a lake, river, stream, mountain, volcano, waterfall, etc.; does not include man-made points of interest – plaques, signs, etc. – near natural features).
  • Candidates that are NOT PERMANENT, including SEASONAL DISPLAYS that are only put up during certain times of the year.
  • Candidates submitted with a PHOTO THAT YOU DID NOT TAKE YOURSELF (i.e., pulled from a third-party source); these will be rejected even if the candidate itself meets acceptance criteria or is on the list of things we generally accept.
  • Candidates on PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY (including farms)
  • Candidates that may interfere with the operations of FIRE STATIONS, POLICE STATIONS AND HOSPITALS
  • Candidates on the grounds of PRIMARY/SECONDARY SCHOOLS