# Inaccessible Pokémon Go Pokéstops you've found

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccessible-pokemon-go-pokestops-youve-found/759863>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [July 14, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccessible-pokemon-go-pokestops-youve-found/759863 "2016-07-14T00:31:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inaccessible-pokemon-go-pokestops-youve-found/759863/21 "2016-07-23T23:42:43Z")

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> [@AndrewL](#):
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> The locations of Pokestops and Pokemon Gyms were copied from the locations of portals in Ingress, which was also developed by Niantic. Ingress portal locations were submitted by Ingress players over a period of several years. If a location is a Pokestop portal, it’s because some time in the past an Ingress player took a picture of it and submitted it as a portal location, and someone at Niantic approved it.

Incorrect.

While this is true for many Pokestops / Ingress portals, the original Ingress map was lifted from the Historical Markers Database ([hmdb.org](http://hmdb.org)). So a Pokestop exists EITHER because an Ingress player proposed it or because there is a historical marker there that was memorialized at [hmdb.org](http://hmdb.org).

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