Trainers,
we are super excited to report a few new observations we’ve made and confirmed over the past 3 days, that change our perspective of Ingress and Pokémon GO relationship! We finally have it, the time of the fabled daily Ingress-Pokémon GO sync!
Without further ado:
- new Ingress data (finalised OPR reviews) is imported to Pokémon GO daily and is converted to Stops and Gyms
- new data is imported every day at 18:30 GMT
- the sync must be automated, as it happens every day
We have managed to confirm these observation by tracking import patterns in relation to Ingress portal submission results. All Ingress portals that are approved before 18:30 GMT are considered for the daily import, but not all portals are imported.
In other words — every day there is a chance you’ll get a new PokéStop or Gym in your area, depending on your luck and active OPR reviewers in your wider area.
The following portal (Franjo Tuđman, first Croatian president) was added two days ago at 18:30 GMT (20:30 in Croatian local time) and we tracked the following stats:
- Time of OPR approval: 07:23 GMT, 09:23 Croatia Time, 27th September
- Time of appearance in Ingress: 07:23 GMT, 09:23 Croatia Time, 27th September
- Time of observed appearance in Pokémon GO: 18:34 GMT, 20:34 Croatia Time, 27th September
Dump from the OPR result e-mail message:
A similar pattern was observed for Crkva Rušinac, another portal that got approved on OPR on the evening of September 26th, just after the daily sync of 26th has ran.
Conclusion
In locations where Ingress is more popular, OPR agents tend to go on deny streaks, as it’s the most efficient way to earn Recon medal points. In turn, many portals get denied with no good reason – it happened to us, it will happen to you too.
Additionally, maybe it’s not a bad idea to go out every evening around 18:30 GMT (check your local time equivalent using this link).
