Can someone explain all these overcrowded cells in Totana (Spain)?

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Town is Totana (Spain). Map is filtered to show Community Sources and only IN THE GAME.

It is well known that the community in this small town caused a region-wide scandal when local community “leaders” purchased Level 12 Ingress accounts back in 2018—at a time when waypoint submissions were restricted to Ingress—even though these players only played Pokémon GO.

The vast majority of POIs are in the wrong locations, having been submitted in bad faith to abuse the system.

Can anyone explain how they managed to fraudulently overpopulate so many S2 L17 cells and get away with it? Is there a way to report this?

Some fellow players reported a few falsely located wayspots, and Niantic moved them to their correct locations—which happen to fall within cells that are already occupied… Yet the waypoint didn’t disappear. Example:

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Here, wayspot “Mural al Alfarero” and “Peña Madridista La Décima” were in a totally false location, even crossing roads from its true location. Both were reported days ago claiming false location. Both are now in their correct spots but inside an already populated cell, even 3 meters away from another wayspot. Coordinates are 37.772704,-1.492847.
Current state:

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How is this possible? What im I missing?

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Since this involve many wayspots, you can report here :

Staff can refresh the area and help you move the wayspots. Make the report as tidy as possible

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Scopely Explore put something in place a couple of years ago so that Pokemon Go recalculated which wayspots to use when a wayspot was moved, not just when a wayspot was added.

They also went and applied this to existing wayspots.

In theory, this removed all the abusive surplus pokestops, which were often created from leigitimate POI which were misplaced and then moved into the correct position.

In practice, not every area was cleaned up. Also, it is still possible to create crowded areas and Scopely Explore have said these are fine, so the “one pokestop per cell” rule is not an absolute.

Definitely report this area though.