- Wayspot Title: Metro art Stuyvenberg
- Location 50.886094, 4.342230
- City: Brussels
- Country: Belgium
- Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):
- Additional Information (if any): This POI has been in the game for years. It was an Ingress portal. Today in the morning the POI is missing from the game. Why? It’s a good quality wayspot and it meets zero removal criteria. Please reinstate this portal if possible. Thanks.
I had a look on street view and couldn’t find this, but did find a record of the portal on Google that makes it look like it’s underground.
If it is indeed in the underground metro station as it looks to be, is it in an area where you can safely access it? Or is it one of these pieces of art which is not accessible because it’s over the rails?
Edit: judging by the photo here, I was correct in thinking it was inaccessible due to being on the wrong side of the rails. For safe pedestrian access, you need to be able to safely walk up to and touch the object, and in this case you can’t do that because you’d be stood on the rails.
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according to this logic is it a safe place for a portal?
but if you fell and broke a leg trying to touch that guitar or whatever else on a photo?
Yes Niantic has clarified waypoints need safe pedestrian access on a 2D plane. So you wouldnt need to access the mural or a clock tower several stories up, but reaching the base of it is sufficient.
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This POI is a part of a metro station so you reach it once you enter this station, I’m trying to understand for what reason the same clarification can’t be applicable here
The POI was specifically a sculpture that is on the non-pedestrian side of an active railway line.
Whilst yes, you can’t physically touch a mural that’s high up on a building, there is an uninterrupted vertical surface which you can touch (the wall the mural is painted on) which is deemed good enough for access.
However, for something in an underground tunnel, there isn’t an uninterrupted vertical surface that extends to above ground, and so you need to base the safety of access on if you can stand by it and touch it within the confines of where it’s physically located, which is the tunnel/station.
As it’s not on the platform side of the railway, you can’t safely stand by it and touch it, as you’d get run over by a train if you tried, and so it doesn’t have safe access, which is why it was removed.
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Thanks for the appeal, @MindDriller. We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire the Wayspot.