Poi was approved on 28dec but it is still not showing up till today. Compared to the other poi, I was able to see 12 hours later.
Welcome to the forum!
I keep this statement ready for people looking for their pokestop:
I know the prompt tells you that you are submitting a “Pokestop” but you are actually submitting a Wayspot to the Lightship database, which can only become a Pokestop or gym if it is alone in a level 17 S2 cell. This is a good article about S2 cells and PoGo: https://pokemongohub.net/post/article/comprehensive-guide-s2-cells-pokemon-go/
If you would like to leave the gps coordinates, someone can check and see if this is the issue.
If you’re able to share coordinates, I’ll be able to give you a better answer.
But for now, it’s likely there’s already a Wayspot that’s become a PokéStop in that cell so it doesn’t meet inclusion rules for Pokémon GO.
Found it. Same Level 17 S2 Cell as “Estuari Outdoor Exercise” for sure. I haven’t checked if any of the other nearby wayspots are also in that cell though.
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Thanks. I was poking around the general area but making a coffee at the time so didn’t fully check.
As @hankwolfman has shared, the Wayspot shares a cell with another already existing PokéStop.
Your email does state that:
Remember that not all accepted nominations will appear in all Niantic games (and may take up to 48 hours to appear).
In this instance it doesn’t meet the inclusion rules for Pokémon GO as there’s already a PokéStop in the cell.
Hi,
Happy New Year to you.
Is there anything that I can share to help with my issue.
Happy new year. However, there is no issue. You’ve nominated a Wayspot and placed it correctly.
It just doesn’t meet the inclusion rules to show up on Pokémon GO as a PokéStop.
It does show on Ingress as a Portal, and may show as a Power Spot on Pokémon GO, a Big Flower on Pikmin Bloom, a Gathering Point in Monster Hunter NOW or even a Habitat in Peridot if it meets their inclusion rules.
But it doesn’t meet the inclusion rules to show as a PokéStop on Pokémon GO
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Is there anything I can do to update it so that it will show up?
Or can I know what is the inclusion rules for Pokémon go?
No you can’t.
The inclusion rules for Pokémon GO as mentioned are one PokéStop per S2 L17 cell.
You can see this below.
The one I’ve marked as a PokeStop is the PokéStop for that cell. Ingress has different inclusion rules (20m) so your Wayspot appears as a Portal in that game.
Oh man, I only play Pokémon go.
There goes my pokestop.
Anyways, thank you so much for the prompt reply.
You could always try Ingress. If you get to L10, you’ll have another 40 nominations you can use.
You’ll already have a nearby Portal with this one you got added!
Hi,
this is little disappointing as I have several approved pokestop but they are all not reflecting.
Based on what I can see other Pokéstops, there are so many others where they are extremely closed to each other and still able to show up. How is that possible?
Below are the coordinates for those approved awhile back but still not reflecting.
- 1.429144, 103.651792
- 1.429506, 103.653009
- 1429294 , 103652763
For this one I assume it is “Giant kids slide”. You have “Estuari Spider Playground” as a PokéStop already in this cel and within 20m of your Wayspot so it doesn’t meet inclusion rules for either Ingress or Pokémon GO.
“Long Hop” is a Portal 
however it doesn’t appear on Pokémon GO as you have Estuari Big Castle as the Wayspot that’s a PokéStop here.
You’re missing two “.” and some extra numbers here so I haven’t checked this.
I understand your explanation but for what I can see in other parks, they have so many pokestops that are so nearby to each other.
Following is the 3rd pokestop that is not showing up.
“EG Knee Lift Workout” is a Portal 
but you have “Estuari Outdoor Exercise” as the PokéStop already for this cell.
As for the above, this can seem the case if Wayspots are near the cell lines. Looking at a nearby example to these.
Both of these are PokéStops (ignore the gym marker) but are opposite sides of the cell line and the only Wayspot in their cells so both appear but must seem very close.
Also important that you’re nominating Wayspots that may become PokéStops if they meet the inclusion rules. None of these did but you added some Portals to Ingress so that will be appreciated by those players.
Just to add, we did discuss the 3rd one earlier in this thread.
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As I was sharing, if based on the explanation you provided. How does it not apply to this Pokéstops? They are about the same range as mine.
Following is just one example, I have seen many others with the same range.
Isn’t there something can be done?
A few years back there was an oversight with the system that meant that location edits didn’t get checked against the proximity rules correctly. This unfortunately led to abuse where people would intentionally misplace wayspots, and then move them to cells that were already occupied, as they’d remain in the game no matter where they were moved to, resulting in clusters that shouldn’t have existed.
Niantic fixed this oversight, so location edits do now get checked against the proximity rules as intended, but there was no system in place to automatically refresh any areas that were affected by this and remove the excess Pokéstops and Gyms. Niantic has manually fixed several areas where there was a lot of this kind of abuse, but they only do this if such areas are reported to them.
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Understand that now. Thank you for the explanation.
I have another Pokéstop approved but didn’t show up. Please help to check if this is also in the similar issue.
- 1.429401, 103.653416
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