Repeated abuse of submissions (POI "Eule Stromkasten")
HomerGAdams-ING
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In my region we have a POI popping up every few days, which gets then reported and removed. Until now, this portal has been submitted (and accepted) ate least 6 times I know of.
The object might even exist (a "Stromkasten",), but the photo was taken from another website, and not taken at that location. There already was an appeal to re-instate the portal (see https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/discussion/1097/restore-portal-pokestop-eule-stromkasten),, but this appeal was correctly denied.
The original photo was taken from this page https://die-sprueherei.de/objektgestaltung/ and using those pictures without written consent can be considered a copyright violation.
The current photo can be found as https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GWHOh_2_Wlc5MpFoZotaZFyHY9nP_NWWQZwKRAyn5SH9xOpvP_QyT-NpC2dh96WR4C4ei2YuBBQfaxxBTG1fOzdSlB4
When taking a look at Google Maps at this location, https://www.google.de/maps/place/51%C2%B033'58.3%22N+6%C2%B045'29.9%22E/@51.566189,6.7577445,158m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x47b89473b8242be7:0x6620abf6f7650994!2sRabenkamp+65,+46539+Dinslaken!3b1!8m2!3d51.5662!4d6.75807!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d51.5661891!4d6.758293 you will see it looks like the object is there, but the surroundings appearing in the photo do not match that location. This also can be (and was) confirmed by local players.
Furthermore the submission history looks really strange, the submitted locations differ only by fractions either in latitude or in longitude.
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.566206,6.758311&z=15&pll=51.566206,6.758311
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.566200,6.758307&z=15&pll=51.566200,6.758307
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.566200,6.758305&z=15&pll=51.566200,6.758305
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.566203,6.758305&z=15&pll=51.566203,6.758305
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.566201,6.758304&z=15&pll=51.566201,6.758304
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.566201,6.75831&z=15&pll=51.566201,6.75831
Unfortunately it is impossible to see who submitted the portal, especially since the last submissions are made via PokemonGo, thus not containing any plyername in Ingress, so it is impossible to say if the portal was re-submitted by a single person, or by multiple persons.
Please think about imposing at least a warning on the involved player(s) to use only pictures taken on-site, and to stop abusing 3rd-party images for POI images.
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This is the original Eule - Stromkasten. Urban Arts Dinslaken never sprayed this box
Other occurencies of this fake picture:
This is - by the way - a fresh photo of this location, which matches the Google-Maps-view perfectly
Here is another one:
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=50.749677,11.042555&z=15&pll=50.749677,11.042555
@NianticCasey-ING seems like I forgot to tag you - fixed. Please have a look a this problem.
This is a sample on how the system currently is abused, there are multiple different occurrences of portals submitted at different (wrong) locations with absolutely identical photos.
If the object exist in that area but its photo was taken from third party source, why don't request photo edit instead?
@patsufredo-PGO there is no powerhouse there, so it does not make any sense at all to request a change. The portal is a fake, period.
And another appearance, this time with a title "Die Berühmte Eule" (the famous owl) at https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=51.540650,6.581853&z=15&pll=51.540650,6.581853