Hi,
I wrote here on Friday October 17 as several pokestops had disappeared overnight in Rovaniemi, Finland. Niantic had kindly responded to my plea and returned the missing pokestops but they unfortunately vanished again on the next day, Saturday October 18.
I am starting to believe that some people might be deliberately targeting certain pokestops in the neighborhood and getting them removed over and over again just to annoy the local community. For example, these three removed pokestops are right next to a fourth similar pokestop (“Keltakankaan koripallokenttä”/“Keltakangas basketball court”) which never gets deleted with the other three.
The pokestops in question are the city-owned sports hall, playground and football field:
Here is a link to the previous thread written by me on the matter, the link takes you to the post where I’ve given extra information on the pokestops being on the city-owned property and therefore should all be eligible POIs.
Is it possible for Niantic to investigate further on the matter, why are these pokestops being constantly deleted?
Pumping this up since according to local community, this is still happening. @NianticAaron Anything that could be done? You have access to logs and you can see who is asking for approved and even restored waypoints constantly being removed… This certainly should fill the marks of abusing the system.
Just few days ago Rovaniemi lost
Maahisten valtakunta
66.497530, 25.715814
Hän Vie Minut Vihreille Niityille
66.491642,25.726505
Love Pigs
66.493777,25.734371
Night City Mural
66.499877,25.730459
Lintutorni Trail Marker
66.486395,25.723770
Spiraea betulifolia - koivuangervo
66.489207,25.693915
Pyöräilyn pääreitti Mäntyvaara-Korkalovaara
66.499347,25.693380
Pyöräilyn pääreitti Mäntyvaara 4.8
66.498836,25.710204
At least one of those was one you agreed was valid after multiple persons provided photos, pictures and map from it.
I would add to the list above the POI Crazy Owl (66°29’07.1"N, 25°43’23.4"E), a well-known graffiti below an overpass in the Rantavitikka neighborhood. It disappeared from the game map on Friday evening, though I have photographic proof that the graffiti was still there the following day.