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Wayspot Title: Sangela Restaurant

Location (lat/lon): 15.291611,74.050256

City: Macasana

Country: Bharat

Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information): Not Applicable

Additional Information (if any): This is the first bar & restaurant in the village. I’m unaware of how the Wayspot was nominated but I can tell you about its history.

Sangela Bar & Restaurant was the first and only eatery in the village of Macasana for a long time. To that extent it has always been a place that has brought the community together in a social manner.

The restaurant is a place that serves delicious Goan foods including beef chilly, choris pao, and rechado mackerel. During summer you even get urak here.

To be clear, the local naming convention for old restaurants in Goa is to put the it as “bar and restaurant” and not “restaurant and bar”. This owes to the state’s history of being one of the few places in Bharat that have relaxed liqueur rules.

Proof of naming convention: Some other great examples of “bar and restaurant” places that are famous for food. These are not adult oriented locations.

Proof of name:
“Bar and Rest” can be seen here:

Proof it is still open:
Employee opening the doors

More info:

Sangela is used as the defacto Bus Stop at this point in Macasana. People of all ages and walks of life sit at the outside area waiting for the bus. Thus helps explore.

When requiring directions, everyone from the neighborhood gives their directions relative location to Sangela. Even the Amazon delivery guys always use it as a reference point. Thus helps explore.

To further add, the village of Macasana is rural and small compared to other villages in Bharat. It has a population of only 1972 as per the 2011 census.

The location meets several criteria.
A place to socialise.
Helps explore.
Is a famous landmark.

Please Restore in all 5 games.

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Hello and welcome,

Google Maps says this is permanently closed and Street View is from September 2022, so that isn’t proof that it’s still open. More proof is going to be needed that it’s still open as a restaurant, such as current photos or a video.

The fact that people in the area use this as a bus stop doesn’t make it meet criteria to be a Wayspot; bus stops are places for people to get onto a bus, so they are seen more like infrastructure and considered indistinct. And being a central point to help people get around town also doesn’t make it meet criteria, neither does the fact that this is a rural area. You may want to review the Wayspot Criteria as well as the Criteria Clarification Collection for a better understanding of what may or may not be eligible.

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As a rural area in Bharat, street view doesn’t get updated as often. Even urban areas are lucky to get it updated ever.

There’s an issue with several locations in the village where they’ve wrongly been marked as closed. Google just won’t fix them.

Solely relying on Google’s inaccuracy would be wrong.

Places that help explore are part of the Wayfarer criteria. In an absolutely remote village (this is the most remote village in the taluka of Salcete), a place like this helps people find their way around in more than one way.

It’s not a generic mass produced bus stop. In fact there is no official bus stop structure nearby. To my knowledge there are train and metro stations (not depots or hubs) in several cities that have made it into the Wayfarer map. Those places get a train every few minutes. This is a place where you get 1 bus every 60-90 mins. 120 mins if it’s lunch time. The bus is the only means of public transport. Please note this location serves as the bus stop fir people living about 2 kms away even.

The Wayfarer Criteria are meant to be guiding with no strict yes or no and this doesn’t meet any rejection or removal criteria as far as I’m aware.

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You still need to provide additional proof that it’s still open though. All you have done is said it’s still open, but that’s not proof. Users can ask that a place on Google Maps marked as closed be marked as open again, but I would think that Google Maps looks for additional info as well.

Official bus stop structures are also considered generic and indistinct. None of the bus stops where I live have Wayspots. Only the main bus terminal, which has an indoor area where one could socialize with others, has a Wayspot.

Yes, there are grey areas with the criteria, but you are stretching them a little far here. If you looked on the forums to see what others have said about bus stops, you’d see that most agree they dobn’t quality because they are viewed as indistinct. If you looked at other restoration requests, you would see that additional info proving that the location still exists as what it’s supposed to be is typically needed. Staff may not restore unless they get additonal info.