Even with all the stuff (especially with washing machines and dryers, which are SO unusual for laundries /s) this is still a generic business which doesn’t fit eligibility or acceptance criteria. Please remove this wayspot, as it serves a bad example and encourages players to submit more wayspots that also don’t fit eligibility or acceptance criteria.
It doesn’t look valid to me. But Niantic has different standards for acceptance vs removal. IOW it doesn’t meet acceptance criteria, but now that it’s in - it doesn’t meet removal criteria. The removal criteria are basically (a) things that could get Niantic into legal trouble: schools, houses, unsafe, sensitive, abusive, and (b) location things that are objectively provable with geotags: duplicate or removed.
That sounds like the exact same logic I see people who perform abuse use. “What’s the harm of trying?” “Well, it worked one time before…” “Oh, well, we’ll see what Niantic says.”
There’s a long history of the community (no less yourself) begging for Niantic to remove candidates that the community generally considers ineligible due to inability to ever be able to bend to meeting criteria. I myself begged for Niantic to remove a Men’s Warehouse that they continued to refuse to remove. Often, these types of nominations are approved by Niantic, which only increases the frustration. Meanwhile, areas are targeted and trail markers that generally could be seen as possibly eligible are removed.
I don’t like the precedence of having borderline candidates removed. I’m aware that a laundromat can be a social outing, but that’s not immediately how I see this Wayspot.
I am always curious to see how Niantic responds to these appeals from you.
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