Edit location question
Hello! Long time reader, first time poster. Hopefully this isn't that farfetched of a wayfarer discussion.
I've come across these two close positioned gyms. When at the location, it becomes pretty obvious that the gym to the left has been intentionally moved approximately 15m away from the POI (the POIs are on a train station and the incorrect placed POI is currently placed on the train tracks.
I've submitted a location edit request and was wondering if there is a risk of the gym dissappearing if its accepted. The old correct position is still only about 10m from the other gym. And on top of that, the moved gym will be moved to a cell where another third gym already exists (not visible in this picture).
Have found conflicting information of the 20m rule that it is still in use and not. Hope someone here could share some knowledge!
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If you move a gym to a Level 14 cell that already has three gyms, one of them will disappear.
Sometimes it might stay, but that seems to happen only when Niantic themselves perform the location movement.
I should have specified the cell level. The cell in question where another gym already exists is a level 17 cell. The move will be performed in the same level 14 cell, so the gym count will be the same.
If the Gym is moved, it will be treated as a "new" waypoint, and will come back as a Stop. If there are sufficient Stops in the S14 cells to generate a new stop, then one of the existing stops will go "live" as a Gym.
TLDR - moving a Gym turns it into a Stop.
With the move to a separate lightship database that stores all excepted wayspots, all Niantic games go straight to that database and apply their rules. So ingress only has a 20m rule and it extracts points that meet that rule. Pogo only has the level 17 cell rule so extracts those that meet that rule.
Any moved wayspot goes back into the database and follow the rules.
Thanks for reaching out, @Callemb-PGO! Your appeal is in wrong format. Please resubmit the appeal in the correct format. We'll look into it.
The OP is just asking a question.