Objects no longer there
Rainfal-PGO
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I have had quite a few clothing donation areas removed due to covid so now all these waypoints describing a donation spot no longer exist. I tried to read through forums and couldn't find my answer. What do we do with the points that are actually no longer there physically?
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Via the game app, submit an "Invalid Portal / Stop" notification which Niantic will review.
Yeah but then I have less gyms to visit? Idk guess I leave them alone.
If something is removed, you have indeed less thing on the game.
If the object is no longer there, why would you want to keep it as a Wayspot? Someone is going to come along and report it eventually. Bite the bullet and adjust.
I have reported, and had removed, several POI which no longer existed or did not exist in the first place (commonly submitted and pushed through by a certain player in my region). The same is true for other nominations which should have been rejected to begin with. While it is frustrating to lose a POI that you like having for the sake of simply having it, I have commonly found there to be something else in the S2 cell to replace it with. I suggest looking for something else nearby that would be a better POI anyway and replace it rather than lose it altogether.
By Ingress lore, that place has been a portal, emitting XM, for millennia. Human minds were inspired by that XM, to put a (whatever) on top of it. The portal will still be emitting XM long after the (whatever) marker is gone.
Bottom line is you don't have to do anything at all about them if you don't want. 😂 Nobody can tell you or force you to remove them. Everything about wayfarer is done on your free time and energy, with zero compensation. If you don't want to remove them, don't! It is within your rights to enjoy them as-is.
And they may come right back after the pandemic recedes.
I would say that even if you removed the spots and they weren’t gyms I think you keep the gyms but lose the Waypoints, however you will need even more Pokestops to get more gyms. (Did this change?) also as @FuzzehLumpkins-PGO said, there has to be stuff to replace it with. If not, there has to plenty of parks not not yet, or maybe new art? Go and explore 🙂
If you didn't intend on removing them, why did you ask in the first place then?