The outside of the drive-up starbucks has a beautiful mural of pacific northwest wildlife wrapped all the way around the building, and has been a favorite POI, but within the last couple days it has been randomly removed.
The Starbucks itself IS a sponsored stop, but that causes no conflict- these POI have existed on the POGO map in tandem for a long time.
It’s not a duplicate or generic business, as the POI is for the mural itself, which no other Starbucks location has. It’s not gone, as the mural is still there. It’s just as accessible as it was before… So I believe the POI as wrongfully deleted, and I’d really like Niantic to take a look at this
Hi @heterodont
I’ve moved your topic over to the appeal section because you want it reinstated, correct?
Is the sponsorship with this Starbucks location new?
Thanks for the move, yes that is the intention, I’m sorry I misplaced the thread
The sponsored POI has been there for as long as I can remember. If I recall correctly from looking at the photos, the mural POI has also been there for several years.
No problem, you saved my “job” as a moderator
Like Elli suggested it will be probablly good to do geo tagged photos to proof that the mural still exist.
In general Niantic/Scopely will come back to you in an undefined amount of time and tell their decision.
Good luck
Hello again! I’m not sure how to geotag photos, But I do happen to have some that I took within the last week. Frustratingly by coincidence, I was actually trying to get more photos added to it before I found it gone… I even have them in voting that closeup one in the gallery is actually mine too, it was auto accepted right away
Just got the screenshots. It does appear to still be in the database! Which makes this extra puzzling as it doesn’t seem to have changed in a way to warrent removal from pogo. It’s not because they’re in the same cell, because sponsored stops and non sponsored stops can exist in the same cell with no issue
In order to emphasize PokéStops based on partnership agreements, adjustments have been made to hide PokéStops based on the wayspot.
I checked it against the Ingress IntelMap, but it looks like the Wayspot for that mural hasn’t moved. Perhaps the recent update brought Starbucks PokéStops closer to Mural PokéStops. It seems that partner PokéStops are designated by contract companies, but perhaps Starbucks, the contract company, changed the designated location. Since the mural Wayspot is already in the correct location, editing its location would be a violation. All we can do is ask Starbucks to move the partnership PokéStop a little further away.
that closeup one in the gallery is actually mine too, it was auto accepted right away
