Hello, I’m following up on this because I was told to “take a new photo” of wayspot titled: Ufo 2, located at: 48.352312,17.573112
This is a fake submission, not a photo quality issue. The person stole a copyrighted photo directly from this news article trnavak.sk and uploaded it at their workplace.
The stolen photo doesn’t even show the correct structure where the pin is. It is a completely different tower. The water tower shown in the stolen photo is actually located at 48.355839, 17.573959, Streetview, which already exists as a gym in pokemon go.
The current wayspot with 3rd party photo is located inside a restricted industrial factory Streetview. I alraedy messaged you that I was asked to leave when approaching this area. Asking me to “take a new photo” is strange to me.
The bigger issue is that this player has been systematically fabricating wayspots here for years. I’ve already had over 10 of their fake stops removed, but they never seem to face any consequences. If I go there and take a new photo from a distance, I’m just validating their fake wayspot 
Thanks for looking into this.
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It might be worth reporting as a duplicate, if the image is from an existing wayspot.
Niantic do appear to insist that new photos are added before invalid ones can be removed, presumably because they don’t want wayspots to have no photo. This frustrates some people.
It is infuriating to me that a Wayspot that should have been rejected in voting is allowed to remain.
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Exactly. I just received another response on a different Wayspot which is clearly located on private residential property, but the submission uses stolen 3rd party photos that make it look like legitimate courts. I provided links proving those exact same photos and locations are from elsewhere and explained that the actual location is inaccessible to the public and despite that, I was asked to take new photos.This makes no sense.
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Thanks, thats a good point. I will try this from now on.
Just to confirm that you are aware that access to the general public is not a requirement, locations such as gated communities are allowed to contain wayspots.
This does not affect the other issues you have with this waypoint but location may not be part of the argument.
Good Luck.
This was only noted as why the photo requested could not be taken.
I was just wanting to make sure the OP was aware.
Lot’s of posters will state “not accessible to the public” to mean “not accessible to everyone”.
Just wanted to make that if this was the case then it should not be part of any appeal.
The stolen photo is abuse - you can report it as such in the Wayfarer map and give an explanation - Niantic Wayfarer
It’s in the middle of an industrial facility, I think in any case this would fail due to unsafe access.
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