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Welcome @nlgrumbl3nl ! The status on your contributions page just shows the nomination was accepted, not its current status in the database.
I believe you are here to appeal to get this reinstated after it was apparently reported for removal. It will help your case to present information showing that it should not have been removed if you have anything you can add. I am not sure what I am looking at here.
I just taken some pictures, and as you can see it is still there.
In Holland we use manhole covers. Sometimes they have special design. This single one has the emblem of our city on it.
That is in the middle of a road, thus has no safe pedestrian access.
No there are two sidewalks. When you are on one of the two sidewalk, there is plenty of room to enter the gym.
The object itself is on the road, nearby sidewalks doesn’t change that. It does not have safe pedestrian access at the waypoint itself.
And manhole covers are eligible to be a stop. You never see those on a sidewalk.
To add to what @RoIi112 said, Niantic has several games that each accepted wayspot can be used for. Each game could interact with a wayspot differently. So Niantic enforces that the specific location of the wayspot be safe. Being in the roadway means this isn’t safe.
Rejection criteria trumps eligibility criteria. Some locations do have manhole covers on sidewalks. No, not all manhole covers are eligible to be waypoints.
I’m not mad or anything, but it seems just so weird. It’s a normal street where the max is 30 km (not miles) an hour. Children play here al the time. The are also speedbumps to prevent speeding.
I did not know that, thanks.
I dont think its weird that Niantic takes safety precautions to ensure the safety of it’s players.
Me to. I didn’t think beside pogo. If other games use the exact location I understand it.
I could see how it looks weird if you only play PoGo where there is a large spin distance. There are actions in Ingress that require you to be basically on top of the portal. I don’t play other games but they might have similar requirements.
Some of the other ones you see may be in sidewalks and allowed. It would be hard to tell from that main photo if it is street or sidewalk. So that might also look weird that there are some that are okay and some that are not.
Thanks for the appeal, @nlgrumbl3nl . We reviewed your appeal and stand by our decision to retire the Wayspot in question.
