Overlapping Sponsored Gyms

AlexMTG-PGOAlexMTG-PGO Posts: 301 ✭✭✭

Please just space these out. It’s extremely difficult to deliberately click on a specific one of the two:

Title of the Wayspots: Starbucks, Verizon

Location: 42.80180° N, 71.53765° W

City: Nashua, NH

Country: USA


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  • HankWolfman-PGOHankWolfman-PGO Posts: 4,903 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is not a Wayfarer issue. Sponsored locations are not kept in the wayspot database. You may need to message Pokémon Go support about this issue, but it's unlikely they'll actually do anything about it. Both companies have paid for their respective gyms to be in the locations specified, so unless one of them is actually in the wrong location, you'll be stuck with it looking like this, and even if it is the case that one is located in the incorrect location, good luck getting them to actually fix it.

    In my local area we have a sponsored Pokéstop for a branch of a business that was created after the business moved out of that premises. I've reported it as invalid several times as it no longer exists at the location, but Niantic haven't done anything about it as it's earning them money.

  • AlexMTG-PGOAlexMTG-PGO Posts: 301 ✭✭✭

    It's not that either of them are at the wrong address - they both exist and share the address. It is a commercial 2 unit building.

  • tp235-INGtp235-ING Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A similar case was previously found in Ingress.

    You can contact Pokémon GO Help or Niantic Help on Twitter for more information on this matter.

  • tp235-INGtp235-ING Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh, so this is not a duplication of Starbucks, but a duplication of two sponsored Pokemon gyms, Starbucks and Verizon.

    I misunderstood a bit and will try to fill in some more advice based on my past experience.


    The location of the sponsor WAYSPOT cannot be moved without the sponsor's consent, even Niantic. (However, Niantic seems to have informed the sponsor to that effect.)

    So for this case, please contact Niantic Help and also ask Starbucks or Verizon Help Chat about this matter. You can also send a mentions to their social networking accounts.

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