New waypoints being used for max raids

I had also great nomination of flower shop whit a restaurant and now its a powerspot,

Overal most are on good locations, most are shops, or waypoints that are in same cell. There is also a double location on the highway .is it also possible to report them true sharing location ? Since you cant reach them on foot and can not report them. Then they can maybe pop up on safer location.

I’m aware of that method - just wanted to check in. I think that’s the first I’ve seen somebody claim a removal request worked.

The first day I reported a Burger King that closed 5+ years ago but is still a Powerspot.

[Edit in: thanks for the response! Hopefully they review these better than regular requests since there doesn’t appear to be tracking, yet]

Funny, I’ve reported 2 closed BKs in my city!

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Im still wondering where the OP saw a photo

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That’s good news that a report did work, albeit doesn’t seem consistent.

EV charging lamppost and a bloke selling tee shirts from his house for today. Great stuff, Niantic

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At least I know where to get my car charged whilst doing a Dynamax Raid.

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Charged your car and bought the tee shirt… Literally.

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I submitted a waypoint, and while it was being rejected by Emily and sent to appeal, a max spot appeared for a business at one of the flats in the building

My new waypoint appeared tonight but it’s unclickable in PoGo because it’s merged with the max point :laughing:

Just thought this might make some of you chuckle.

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I’ve been thinking about how I’d have implemented Power Spots, because it’s true that ā€œwe already used all the Lightship wayspots in the areaā€ is a real problem that needed to be solved. But I think, instead of turning to low-quality data, I’d have:

  1. Turned unused wayspots from the database into Power Spots (as they are already doing), and
  2. When there are no unused wayspots available, instead turn a PokĆ©stop into both a PokĆ©stop and a Power Spot. The interface can’t be that difficult to figure out. It could open up to the regular PokĆ©stop screen, with a button to click to access the Power Spot. Or it could actually show up on the overworld map as a ā€œYā€-shaped pin, where one branch has the PokĆ©stop symbol and one has the Power Spot glow, and you can tap on one or the other.

I don’t think they’re going to change anything of course, but I’m mostly just lamenting what could have been.

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Did you tried a touchpen?

Yeah :laughing: if I walk around the front of it I can click it but the graphics are merged, kinda funny!

Enjoy the power!

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A lot more difficult than taking current valid Wayspots and throwing them into a big pot with out of date, misplaced, incorrectly titled, pictureless junk though.

One of these words is not allowed

Jnk
V
lid
Wyspot
P
t
D*te

:woman_shrugging:t2:

I am not entirely sure why they need to rotate to so many different places, I guess thats another reason why they had to add so many people’s houses to the database to ā€œimproveā€ it.

I like your idea that they could fuse with a pokestop - maybe thats what mine was going for :laughing: after all, gyms spawn raids but also give items when interacting, so maybe power spots that take over pokestops could also give items in that way?

I do think its a bit of a concern with how many of these spots are bad, especially when compared to the wayfarer ones. I dont think its bad to have these at proper business locations, generic or otherwise, but I don’t think all the home business run from SFPRP are good ideas

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You’re not having much luck are you with replies :laughing:

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It’s a Bot / 26thDoctor Love / Dislike thing… best to leave 'em to it.

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A lot more difficult than taking current valid Wayspots and throwing them into a big ( cooking utensil that rhymes with hot) with out of date, misplaced, incorrectly titled, pictureless ( Rubbish that rhymes with an elephants nose) though.


Yay :joy_cat:

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I think that they needed so much is because the current concept makes it necessary.
Now the Dynamax Raid Bosses are out. If you defeat one you can place one of your dm pokemon inside. But at this powerspot never comes a raid boss again. But you got many tasks about winning dm raids. So you have to go to the next…
I didn’t try jet to call one of mine back, so idk if this triggers to appear a new raid boss :woman_shrugging:t2: