Register gym locations and show it on the map - clicking the gym can start the raid beacon

[ntai]

It's pretty hard to pin down the gym location from current gray scale map.

So, I'd like to see the gym location pre-defined in the map. I think it would be groovy if registering gym location can be done by pasting Google map URL.

I'm submitting a ...

• bug report
• feature request

What is the expected behavior or new feature?

Gym sprites are show on the map (turn on/off) - The gym can have a name and should be same as the Pokemon Go gym name.

Clicking the gym fires the "start beacon".

The beacon shows the name of gym.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

It's very time consuming to start the beacon from the plain map. I understand the beacons to stand out, but the gray scale map is not very helpful to pin the gym location.

Other information

[GregNorris2330]

This is a great idea. If gyms are persistent on the radio map, there is also the opportunity to add additional information (previous bosses and trainers, win/loss ratio perhaps). The main benefit is that it would make it much easier to initiate a raid. It could also be used to tell other trainers of an upcoming raid, even if you are not going to be able to participate yourself.

[fortepc]

As useful as I think this could be, I think that this treads too close to violating their TOS/Copyright. Part of what makes Niantic different than every other copycat AR game is their POI database. If we started trying to recreate that on the road, I think that it would open the door to bad things.