No Pokestops Shows Up In My Entire Neighborhood

[cyndiepooh]

I can confirm that I nominated the point of interest represented by an imported power spot, and it was not tagged as a duplicate by the community. There was recently a post where an appeals reviewer did mark an appealed nomination as a duplicate of an imported power spot, but this decision was overturned.

The issue with submitting these imported power spots as wayspots is that they often do not meet criteria to be a wayspot. Check out this post for clarification:

@NianticThibs

Where are Power Spots coming from? How are Power Spots chosen?

Similarly to Pokéstops and Gyms, Power Spots are built upon the Niantic Map.

Currently the locations where Power Spots can appear are a combination of unused wayspots and a recently imported new database.

• Unused wayspots: as many of you know, not all the wayspots available on our Niantic Map are used as pokéstops/gyms in Pokemon Go. Those unused wayspots have a chance to host a Power Spot.
• New database: To enhance the density of locations, particularly in areas previously devoid of them, we have recently incorporated a fresh database of locations. Note that those locations were imported while not necessarily abiding to our Wayfarer criterias.

Since Power Spots are transient, in a given area they will rotate between the available locations.

What are the eligibility criteria for Power Spots?
Why are some clearly ineligible locations according to Wayfarer criteria, appearing as Power Spots?

As mentioned in the previous question, we imported locations some of which did not align with our wayspot criterias. There is no eligibility criteria for Power Spots per se because we do not allow explorers to submit Power Spots, only Wayspots are submittable.

If you find something that is an imported power spot (the placeholder picture instead of a real photo is a good sign that it was an import) that meets criteria, then you can submit it.