Appeal for removed wayspot

Wayspot Appeals
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When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible:

  • Wayspot Title: Vintage DWC Marker
  • Location (lat/lon):Latitude: 50.731802 | Longitude: -1.864956
  • City: Bournemouth
  • Country: UK
  • Screenshot of the Rejection Email * This wayspot was accepted weeks ago but disappeared yesterday without warning
  • Additional Information (if any): There are multiple other similar wayspots across the Bournemouth area, in fact there are at least 2 within 100m radius. This is an excellent place for a wayspot, it is not on private property and is on a main walking/commuting route
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Welcome to the forum!

Existing as game locations does not mean they meet criteria. This will have been removed for a reason. I am not staff, but to make your best case for your appeal, you should prove how these are a great place for exercise, exploration, or being social - the eligibility requirements. If there are so many of them, it may have been removed for being a mass produced common infrastructure type of object. It doesn’t look like this would have been removed for location from your pin, but if there are any location concerns, you should address those, too.

Edited to add street view

I guess the property owner could have requested the removal.

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These looks more like one of these, which are not eligible as they are not interesting…

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.. than it does one of these, which is eligible as it is interesting and people hunt for these.

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As a general guide for the UK, if a boundary stone is logged on geograph, it’s probably eligible. if it isn’t, it probably isn’t.

If you can show that yours is documented on something like geograph, that will help your appeal. The routes of underground water/sewage/mains channels aren’t something that will commonly get explored.

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Hello @nojithenerd
I appreciate it is frustrating when a game location is removed. But these happen for solid reasons.
These are on public land so that is not an issue.
However this is a simple concrete infrastructure marker to let engineers etc be aware what is underground. Many would have been put in place when the housing estates were built or the utilities upgraded.
They simply don’t meet the criteria of a great place to explore.
Being called vintage or historic ( I probably qualify​:thinking:) does not make them interesting ( it doesn’t make me interesting either :joy:)
There are a few, a rare few that are very old and may qualify these tend to be metal.
This is not one of those.

Edited to add
PS Are you sure what the letters stand for?
Appreciate its not you but
It looks as though the B is missing from BDWC which I think stands for Bournemouth and District Water Company

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I have found and submitted three of the metal ones that would be ineligible and boring if concrete (much older and rarer). I even managed to get a passing group of random people interested in my closest one when one of them happened to see it as I was walking past :slight_smile:

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This appears to be a concrete marker for utilities and a lot of similar PoIs were present in the area. They had also been inaccurately labelled as boundary stones.

I believe quite a number were recently removed, as I’ve seen other reports. This is likely because they do not meet criteria or due to being misrepresented by the submitters.

I wouldn’t submit any more of these, and try to keep the core criteria in mind - things that are a great place to exercise, socialise or explore. A concrete marker for engineers is none of those.

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Thanks for the appeal @nojithenerd,

We looked at this Wayspot again and stand by our decision to retire the Wayspot in question.