Niantic's new Wayfarer tool will hopefully smooth the process of adding places into Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go maker Niantic has long struggled to maintain its database of real-world places used in all of its games - but there's a new tool which may solve all that.

Until recently you could only edit, suggest and review new places in Pokémon Go by submitting them as Portals in the company's original game Ingress. But this process has been complicated by Ingress relaunching, and suggestions being granted to high-level Pokémon Go players in a selection of countries.

With more submissions flooding in (Pokémon players can only suggest - not edit or review), this in turn put increased pressure on Ingress users to clear the backlog of submissions. All have to be manually reviewed to make sure someone isn't just nominating their front garden.

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