Appeal portal removal: Bushells Tea Mural
OrangeKeeper-ING
Posts: 12 ✭✭
Title of the Wayspot: Bushell Tea Mural
Location: -31.89760, 115.97343
City: Guildford, Western Australia
Country: Australia
Photos to support your claim:
Google-maps-street-view.jpg (removed portal clearly visible in street view as well as the footpath.)
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Google-search-murals.jpg (Examples of other Bushells Tea advertisement murals).
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Location-Photo-01.jpg (Location view, mural located on the wall on the left of 89 Hugh Street, Guildford, WA, Australia).
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Location-Photo-02.jpg (Landscape close-up perspective view with clearly visible footpath)
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Location-Photo-03.jpg (front view from across the street)
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Location-Photo-04.jpg (perspective view looking back)
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Location-Photo-05.jpg (close-up perspective, with footpath visible)
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Additional information:
The removed waypoint (portal) is a Bushell Tea advertisement mural, that has seen better days, but is still clearly recognisable of the iconic brand of tea that has been around Australia since 1883. A brand that was built through the marketing of heritage and nostalgia as depicted in the mural. (see: https://www.bushells.com.au/about-bushells/).
The mural is located on the side wall of a building along a narrow public footpath (sidewalk) and has easy pedestrian access and is clearly visible in Google maps street view. (See: Google-maps-street-view.jpg)
The present state of the mural is much like what is visible in Google maps street view. It is clearly visible and easily accessible via a footpath that runs alongside the mural wall, as shown in Location-Photo-1.jpg through to Location-Photo-5.jpg.
You will still find these older murals throughout regional towns (see: Google-search-murals.jpg) and some are Ingress waypoints, as they are remnants of the long history of Bushells in Australia and part of their iconic marketing. For example, another similar mural, located in Toodyay, Western Australia (Name: Name: Bushels vintage advertising 1939) — https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=-31.550531,116.467707&z=17&pll=-31.550531,116.467707
Please reinstate this portal as it is a valid waypoint and return the portal keys removed from Ingress scanner.
Comments
Thanks for the appeal, @OrangeKeeper-ING! We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire this Wayspot.
@NianticVK Thank you for your review of my appeal. I really do not inderstand why a mural that is of historical significance is being removed from the portal network.
Is there an option for me to resubmit it and get a peer review on it?
Are you able to clarify why this mural is NOT a valid waypoint?
Thanks.
@NianticVK Thank you for your review of my appeal. I really do not inderstand why a mural that is of historical significance is being removed from the portal network.
@NianticGiffard clearly states that if an eligble object (a mural) is on or near a sidewalk that is not interfering with a single-family residence is aceptable. (See screenshot) – this portal meets thos criteria.
Based on his post, please review this appeal again.
Many thanks.