Any idea why these nominations did not turn into Pokestops?

Hi all,

I am still learning and I had a couple nominations accepted at a park, but I noticed they did not turn into Pokestops even though they are the only thing I can see in the S2 cell. Any ideas on why this would happen? I even needed to download the plugins for the map and use the submission pin toggle to get them to populate on the Wayfarer map even though they are accepted nominations. The default map does not show them as Not in Game. Most of these occurred towards the end of December and early January.

Example: White River Greenway Trial Marker 0.5


White River Greenway Trail Marker 0.5 (The only Wayspot I see in the entire L14 cell)
(39.558567,-86.280654)

Waverly River Crossing
(39.558814,-86.274110)

Old Town Park Murals
(39.556476,-86.272448)

The Gathering Place
(39.556804,-86.272435)

Jacob and Cyrus Whetzel Landing (There is a Wayspot nearby, but it isn’t in game)
(39.558855,-86.272953)

Any insight to help me better understand would be appreciated!

Thank you!

I mention in this article that there is a once a day sync (usually) where eligible wayspots are added as pokestops (or gyms): Why an accepted Wayspot may not be used in Pokemon Go (S2 cells and Pokemon Go)

If they are still within the 48 hour window mentioned in the acceptance email, it could just be that they haven’t synced in yet. Sync is not a precise point in time, but should happen in 3-4 hours from now.

I will look at some of the individual locations, but wanted to say that first.

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I would expect all of these to become Pokestops (or gyms) after a sync, with the exception of the last one, where I don’t know which of the two will sync in, but I expect that if Waverly Mills was accepted first that will be the game location promoted instead of Jacob and Cyrus Whetzel Landing.

Come back later and let us know!

Hi! Thank you for looking and confirming my thoughts as well! All these accepted nominations were accepted several months ago, so they are well past the 48-hour window.

Then there may be an owner request to geo-block game locations there or some kind of bug. Maybe a mod could move this to Bug Reports & Technical Support to see if there are any issues with these Wayspots.

It feels like these cells/wayspots are buggy, just going by the wayfarer map.

When I look at Old Town Park Playground (39.556952,-86.272354) so the wayspots just appear, the cells to the left of this wayspot is empty:

if I zoom in a little more, they are still empty:

if I click anywhere, suddenly two more inactive wayspots show up:

They are marked, just as the ones the op posted, without the usual icons for imported/user-submitted, status in Pogo

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Yeah, beyond me at this point. I flagged my request to move this for staff attention.

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Hey @zoraba ,

We have restricted the addition of Wayspots at this location. As a result, these Wayspots would not show-up on the gameboard.

Thanks,

ty for the reply! you usually say why they have been restricted, but didn’t this time. may i assume it was another reason besides a property owner request?

That was going to be my follow up as well since others have populated and this is a public park, public trail, and access area for the river.

It often feels disappointing when an area is blocked. In this case it’s worse, since it has clear public access, encourages people to go there, and is far enough away from anywhere that the likelihood Pokemon Go causes crowds and disturbance is extremely remote.

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That’s not a bug, that’s a plugin feature