Location edit greater than 10km went through in Ingress and Wizards Unite, but not in PoGo.
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After there was a fire at a location pizza joint in fall of 2020, the business relocated to its current home. It was also a portal, and I submitted a location edit for more than 10km. The move went through in Ingress and Wizards Unite, but not in PoGo. Usually, stops and gyms remain in the system, even if they end up sharing the same cell within a S2 block, which is also current situation at hand: the cell space new portal location has already been claimed by the neighboring portal. Is there a way to move the stop so it can be synced with the portal in Ingress and Wizards Unite, or must I consider it moot because of the S2 cell rule and request a removal in PoGo?
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You already edited the location to the correct spot. Yay!
Niantic says that moving a waypoint away from a correct location, just so it will appear in one game, is abuse. (Even if the current location and the end location are equally correct.)
There's currently a bug where edits are not syncing to Pokémon Go. Please add your report and up vote to this thread:
Usually, stops and gyms remain in the system, even if they end up sharing the same cell within a S2 block
It doesn't work like that anymore. If the cell is busy, it will disappear.
This is not correct anymore. Do to excessive exploitation to create artificially dense areas of Pokestop or gyms, the spacing algorithm is reran for every move.
Also Niantic will not move a Wayspot just so it can appear in a specific gameboard. They will only move it to a more accurate location or to a logical point of discovery.
But you are saying it's still in the old location in PGO? Then it's probably due to the syncing bugs, I guess.
Having done a few Ingress missions where someone has done similar long distance location edits I would suggest maybe removing the old one and creating a new instead... That would also avoid this issue.
If the point of interest is a pizza joint, I would think that removing it and creating a new one comes with the risk of not being able to get it approved. Unless it is highly unusual, most reviewers would likely reject a new nomination. I would wait it out to see if the synch issue gets resolved and then the edit then goes through.