Pokestop Disappeared

0Classified0-PGO

Hi, please forgive me I am new to the forums so i wasn't sure where to tag this.

In our small village with few pokestops, there was a piece of artwork on the side of a tattoo shop that for some reason today has vanished in game, however it still appears on ingress and the ingress map.

https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=53.034759,-2.224541&z=17&pll=53.034759,-2.224541

There is a link to the portal in question, i'm aware that people can request for pokestops to be removed however we are 99% sure this would not have happened because this area is not popular with pokemon players who would obstruct places etc.

So basically is there a chance this is a bug and is there anyway i can find out what happened to the pokestop.

Thankyou.

LukeAllStars-ING

Normally, PokeStops only disappear from the game when the property owner asks for it. If this is tha case, there is no chance of getting the POI back in PGO.

purplepopple-ING

I am rather pedantic and if a waypoint doesn't exist or is a blatant rule violation, I nominate it for deletion. I have gotten about 8 such problematic stops in my area removed.

(Which game play wise is counter productive on my part for both Pogo and Ingress. I will be around them and be like, "Where did X go?" And then go, "doh! I successfully nominated it for deletion! Mea culpa!" My Pogo playing SO also dislikes me doing this.)

Anyway, whT type of stop was it? Where was it located? Is it still there? Have you tried nominating it again?

MessiPy-ING

Most likely, someone moved it to an occupied cell L17 and it disappeared over the limit of pokestop per cell L17 and this you can check using iitc and if this is not the case it would be what Luke said about the owner of the premises the petition to niantic to be removed

LukeAllStars-ING

https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/comment/61042#Comment_61042

Already checked. Alone in its S2 and no POI close to it.

Nadiwereb-PGO

https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/comment/60908#Comment_60908

OP wrote that the PoI is still there in Ingress, so it cannot have been removed from the wayspot network.

The only real explanation I can think of is what @LukeAllStars-PGO wrote: the property owner must have requested the stop to be removed. That, or a new bug, but I don't even want to think about that.