That’s really good some previously unused wayspots are being used.
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From what I’ve seen of the Niantic Campfire, it looks like there’s a resurgence in the big cities.
But in the “remote and rural” areas that the PoGo and Wayfarer teams thought they’d target this time, there seem to be more cities with fewer power spots than in other countries and regions.
It’s not clear how “remote and rural” they meant.
If they had meant for the city to be Jakarta’s size, it would be a success.
But if they were aiming for a city with fewer than a few tens of thousands of people, then this update doesn’t quite measure up.
Yeah some unused powerspot now appear as powerspot
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They have changed the announcement and adding urban and suburban but removing remote area.
Well no resurgence here lol.
So after week of prayers and assurances I guess that might it for me.
At least new players will have endless Pokestops lol.
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Yup as someone said “Being a rural players $#cks” And Them pulling out “remote and rural areas” last day before sync happened way to go 
Two of them showed up, but are further than the last ones and are invalid because 1st one is a ATM and second one is a service center.
One of them is on the most busy road in my area and second one (service center) is also a busy road.
Alright. I live in Jakarta, not a rural city. But look at what I have here. Btw, all except one of these are old power spots, and one of the old power spots disappeared, so I guess its safe to say no power spots added.
That caterpie is in front of someone’s house. The road in front of it (in fact, TWO parallel roads in front of it) are so thin, two grown people walking shoulder to shoulder will barely fit.
That machop is literally under a highway toll road overpass.
That falinks is the only proper powerspot within 1 km radius (yes i know the ss says 600 metres, but its a straight line distance! I cannot fly). Its on a church.
The first pidove is in a major, busy road, on a street food stall, which means, on a max monday, that road will be jam packed with cars and motorbikes. Not safe at all.
The second pidove is on the same street as the caterpie above. In front of someone else’s house. Thin road, same deal.
The third is interesting. Because its on a cemetery.
There. All 600 metres-ish and further. Which is why I said max monday gatherings now feel like a marathon. A spooky one because we need to go to a cemetary. By the end everybody would have ran 6-8 kilos. Not fun.
And to those saying “thats why you submit a pokestop even though its on the same cell yadda yadda”. We did, they all turned to pokestops. Isn’t that the problem in the first place..??
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But I dont think they would’ve been turned into pokestops if there was a pokestop/Gym already in that cell.
Thats where you are wrong my friend.
And thats just one obvious example. See that gym? Behind it, practically hugging it, is another pokestop. I sometimes had to click several times trying to fight the gym, because it keeps choosing the pokestop!
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But I agree to that most of these are on the most busy roads in area which is not even a bit safe to play pokemon go near, imagine battling Dmax legendary in middle of the most busy road in your area and I am not gonna talk about how almost all of these are invalid because of the criteria.
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Thats not how cells work, you have to see the cells using a app, a pokestop can be 10m away from another but it will be because its technically a different cell.
Pokestops cannot be on the same level 17 s2 cells. Level 17 s2 cells are approx 77 metres.
I know but I am talking about if one pokestop is barely in the border of a cell and the other pokestop is also barely in the other cell (the one next to the first cell) it looks like the picture of the gym and pokestop right beside each other
And i checked, they are indeed on the same level 17 s2 cells. I should know, I submitted them, and only resubmit because they were rejected.
Plus, the pokestop hugging gym, they are practically standing on the same spot. We have two such gyms the area. New gyms mind you, one is on a mineral water vendor business. Another is on a public accountant office..
Here, you are welcome to check them yourself.
Coord -6.2228881, 106.7552129
Just to note on this, if the Power Spots are unsafe you can report them by tapping on them, tapping the ? and then the ! and choose why you’re reporting them.
Are these the coords of the gym or the 4 pokestops?