Fake Trail Marker
Wayspot name: Leicestershire Round Trail Marker #2 - Berrywell Drive
Intel link:
Town / City: Barwell, Leicestershire
Country: United Kingdom
Rejection email after being reported through Ingress:
This is a fake Wayspot, for a trail marker where the trail does not exist on this side of town.
This isn’t the place to call out individuals and point fingers for violating the TOS, but this was submitted on a, now banned, account to give a player a Wayspot in range of home.
The submitter had uploaded a mismatched photosphere to Google maps, so a genuine sphere was added to the location, this is
Further evidence that the trail itself does not exist where these fake markers are, in game: https://www.walkingenglishman.com/ldp/leicestershireround.html This is the trail map.
Thank you for your time.
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Thanks for this. Can confirm it is also invalid. Only didn’t post it because I didn’t have the rejection email anymore.
As someone who has submitted lots of this actual trail, I’d like this fake to be removed.
Also as @PkmnTrainerJ-ING has mentioned, I am busy submitting the genuine trail with the hopes of submitting an ingress banner to complete along the route, this is certainly a fake location where the trail doesn't pass. I hope to see future submissions of the Leicestershire round only on the genuine route.
Feel free to ping me on TG, if you want the names a certain way for the markers, for the banner. I’ve got a few more In Voting and some in the backlog.
I checked Google maps and totally support this removal request. It’s a shame some players do it, they need to be banned forever 😡
If it helps, all but one of their accounts has been banned as inferred by the OP
Having just finished researching this issue I can confirm that walk #26 of the Leicestershire Round runs to the west of the fake portal location.
Sutton Cheney – Sutton Wharf – Bosworth Battlefield. 5 miles (8km)
https://leicestershirefootpaths.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/done-walk-26.pdf
While walk #25 of the Leicestershire Round runs further south of the fake portal location.
Sharnford – Aston Flamville – Burbage – Sapcote. 8 miles (13km)
https://leicestershirefootpaths.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/done-walk-25.pdf
Both routes do not pass the location given in the original post which reinforces the fact the portal has been created by manipulation and should be removed from the game.
Can confirm POI does not exist at location and had several invalid requests rebuffed. Only waymarker which exists near the location is a blank permissive marker which is a wayspot also within range of players home.
Several other ER postboxes which are incorrectly named and misuse of accounts gaming the system locally.
Have also looked at this independently this morning. This is a clear and unambiguous fake in order to gain a home portal, and an abuse of Wayfarer. I agree it should be removed from the game.
Thanks for flagging! We have reviewed the report and have taken action on the Wayspot and Wayfinder in accordance with our policies. Thanks for helping us maintain the quality of the Wayspots.
Hi @NianticGiffard I am not sure if this is the same submitter or the same Wayspot as @TheAuraStorm-ING reported but it seems very close and I was dropped into the same sphere. Can you please review and take further action if it is the same submitter?