Approved Way Stop on free 17S2 cell not in game

Hello community, hello Niantic’s staff,

I need a clarification again for 2 approved way stop in free 17S2 cells that don’t appear yet in game board (unlike other proposition i made the same day that are in game now)

The first is in game the two other are not they are all respecting the free 17S2 cell criteria.
Here are more information :



GPS : 50,4123105 and 4,4354661



GPS : 50,4100938 and 4,4352391

Please can you give me more details about why they don’t appear, i feel like i do work for nothing and it’s very unpleasant, it’s killing my will to add new pokestops

Please help me T,T

The wayspots you provided pictures of are both of ineligible objects and may have got flagged, since they should never have been accepted. It is also possible they missed the last sync.

Please read up on the criteria for what makes something eligible to be a wayspot.

Eligibilty https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/eligibility
Acceptance https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/acceptance
Rejection https://wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/new/criteria/rejection
Also Wayspot Criteria — Wayfarer Help Center

An advertising hoarding is not eligible. That sign with the bird cannot be described as a community information board.

Generic graffiti is not eligible. The graffiti on the motorway (?) structure is not high quality graffiti and not a mural, but vandalism. Please see Unique Art

“An advertising hoarding is not eligible. That sign with the bird cannot be described as a community information board.” Ok but the painting is more than 10 years old so it’s not really a real advertising board.

As for graffiti, there is graffiti in game that are worth in term of quality.

For me there is still hidden criteria for the way spots to appear and not knowing them is unpleasant because I work for nothing…

Also the city I lives in is an industrial city, that is going trought economical problems, so you can espect to have good graffiti every were, some time when you want to have a pokestop near you place you have to chose lower quality assets. Every one doesn’t lives in paris with hight quality monuments in every street corners, you have to do with what you have.

I think we all realise in this forum that some neighbourhoods are more challenging than others to get good wayspots. But the rules have to be the same everywhere, to keep it fair.

Graffiti is almost never eligible, as it usually is 100% illegal.

Even if the old advertisement board has not changed in 10 years, it still is just that, an advertisement board. I do think there is a grey area there. I have approved nominations on old wall advertisements, placed there in the 50’s and 60’s.

But this one I would not consider it to be eligible.

Well, it is still very unclear,

  • Wayspot is approved on a free 17S2 cell so it should appear
  • If not addapted, player will ask for removal after, if ok it will stay
  • If it does not appear : Niantic should give a clear justification

We already have IA check in the beginning of the process, why there is still unknow criteria, we are juste wasting time and effort.

As for graffiti, for me even if it’s not art, if it’s well made, if clear and not recover, and if it reflect a feeling or an idea I tend to accepte then. (Except offensive content, abuse)


Clearly that is not ok


This is questionnable because the quality is low but there is meaning behind the world (the catastrophe word reflect the situation of the industry in the area, i mean closing, failure, unemployement, poverty, industrial polution)


Colorfull, single graffiti, positive idea so acceptable for me.

But this is just my personal feeling.
As for why a waystop doesn’t appear, we should have clear reason else we cannot do a good work.

As for the nokia painting : it is referenced in tourism web site :


It is one of the last painted advertisement in charleroi, with is good state and position it should be referenced.

Can you provide the correct location of that advertising hoarding? It doesn’t exist at the wayspot location near to 50.4123105, 4.4354661

Agree, people have different tolerance levels for graffiti. I really hate it, and regard it as a complete disrespect to other peoples property. So I will reject it, I really don’t care about the message, it still is vandalism.

I do accept murals, as those are usually painted with the consent op the property owner.

For @salixsorbus :

Okay, this does make a difference, if it is mentioned as something special, it can be seen as a great place to explore.

It’s up there! I wasn’t looking that high up.

Well for me :
Graffiti on private property (garden wall, house wall, etc …) → Not acceptable
Graffiti on abandoned structure → it depends (quality, etc)
Graffiti on raw concrete → it depends (quality, etc)
Commitionned graffiti (fresque, murals) → almost OK every time

That advert was put up between 2009 and 2017. It is not old enough to count as historic and it isn’t tagged on google maps as anything special.

I also have an easy criteria that I try to follow…

Not Authorised = Graffiti = Vandalism = Reject.
Authorised = Mural = Legal = Accept.

You would expect that graffiti will be covered sooner rather than later either be property owner, authorities or other graffiti.