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This is a complete fake. There is no sandy playground in this appartment complex (why hasn’t this been refused for private property in the first place?!) and was completly forged out of thin air. See the attached, geo-tagged photo for real pictures of the location in question.
to answer this question, the private property rejection is only for SFPRP - single family private residential property. common areas at apartments are eligible locations:
Thanks for the appeal, @d3ethsentence. We have taken another look and move the Wayspot to the correct location and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.
they moved it to 48.325890664312716, 10.052723677552763 as it looks like the sand pit ffrom the Wayspot picture. This screenshot is taken from Google maps.
However, on Bayernatlas, there is no sand pit at all at that location:
No, the pit and the poi (the bird statue) in question are actually ripped from the nearby city Ulm, where that bird is it’s city symbol. That poi exists in Ulm, and the spot was simply stolen. This poi was created 3 or 4 days ago, it is brand new, because, you guessed it, the submitter most likely lives there.
There’s nothing I can do about the pics loosing their geotag, back when you appealed via the Google form you could upload the pictures and the tag would stay. I could also upload them, but then there’s probably a policy against downloading random files.
Sorry, but it is not my job to go geo guessing for the source material of a faked poi when I clearly uploaded proving pictures this poi does not exist on the given location. I understand where you are coming from, but I think uploading multiple pictures proofing my point should be enough.
Niantic would need evidence that somedoesnt exist, three photos can be taken in a way to avoid the subject, not saying you did this, justvsaying its not enough proof. As Kawin said, you can provide proof this actually exists elsewhere, or provide a detailed video of the area showing a full 360° view.
Huh. Since I feel this is a rare thing to do nowadays and I often critize people for not doing it, I will lead by example. This poi indeed does exist, and it’s at the proper location. I was wrong. This is still clearly on private property as indicated by a sign (“trespassing only for people living here”), but it is indeed not faked. Case closed as far as I’m concerned.
