Huge statue was removed due to misleading information
TinyGG-ING
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Title of the Wayspot: 媽祖大道千里眼
Location: 23.512699, 120.360877
City: Chiayi
Country: Taiwan
Screenshot of the Rejection Email: N/A
Photos to support your claim:
There is a information board for pedestrian to read and know the background of this status
Isn't there enough space for pedestrian to stay safely?
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Appeal Denied - Thanks for the appeal, Agent. We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire this Portal.
I don't understand why the creator of the thread got 15 dislikes, it looks like a great and valid wayspot to me. Yes, it is right next to the road, but I see an information board which you can only read when you are standing there, so the place has to be accessible on foot. In addition, there is apparently a place next to it where you can stand, if not a small parking lot. It's a shame that something like this is deleted and the appeal was rejected.
That's totally a joke. Information board for vehicles, not pedestrians.
BTW, 15 dislikes are from the same person, the multi-account king. Niantics totally do nothing to this cheater. Detail story in my previous comments if you're interested in the story.
I don't get it either. I see why this specific one was denied, although I maybe would accept it (part of Streets is out of date, so It's hard to tell), but the dislikes clearly show that there's a lot of people enjoying removing wayspots. This is clearly a revange removal war.
I know of a couple of Historic Markers in my area that wouldn't qualify because they are next to road and don't have pedestrian access. So just because there is an information plaque there doesn't mean that it presumably has pedestrian access. An example of one such marker is below.
Srsly? If an official infoboard is placed somewhere, then the officials obviously define this as safe pedestrian access, otherwise the infoboard wouldnt be there ....
Strongly disagree. If there's an information board, plaque etc. that's clearly meant to be read from up close, it is very unlikely that the object would not have pedestrian access. The PoI in your photo is in my opinion perfectly safely accessible from the direction of the houses in the background. There's no doubt in my mind that the statue in the original post is safely accessible as well.
This thread made me think of a strangely-placed information board that's local to me.
No idea what it says, and no idea how anyone else is supposed to know what it says unless they're actively doing freeway construction.
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Anyway, for the situation presented in this thread, I wonder if there was a reason aside from pedestrian access that this wayspot was removed.
Well, there's another report from the same OP (and of course, same situation at which a player mass reported Wayspots that Niantic deemed most of them lacking safe pedestrian access):
And @phi2458-PGO (local Taiwan player) even told about pedestrian access in Taiwan:
And that's it. Yet Niantic didn't hear local foreign culture as excuse and keep standing on their criteria that's mostly US-or-Western-based.
Another job to you @NianticTintino I think, to let the team understand the culture of each countries and standardize the criteria.