Pokestop unfairly removed

Wayspot Appeals
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Wayspot Title: Mural Silvestre y Piolín

Location *(lat/lon): -9.306464, -75.997150

City: Huanuco, Tingo Maria

Country: Peru

Screenshot of the Rejection Email

  1. As you can see, the PokeStop has been approved for more than
    4 years and here is the community acceptance.

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  2. As you can see, there is interest in the enlightened, meaning there is free access to interact.

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  3. The murals or drawings are PokeStops chosen by the community, which is why it is unfair that they have been removed.

  4. As you can see, in this place the inhabitants have made drawings and murals of different cartoons.

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  5. According to your criteria, murals, drawings, graffiti, are street art that is eligible for the community. So I ask you to replenish the PokeStops that benefit the community that lives around those places.

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According to that photo proof, those 2 murals are side by side, yet the coordinates you give are far from the adjacent piece conveniently in an empty cell.

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The mural is already a wayspot. You can’t nominate each part of one mural. The place also looks residential like it could be someone’s house.

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Agree, this does appear to be a residential area, possibly with single family private residental properties.

And yes, part of the mural is already a Wayspot:

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It’s possible that this mural Wayspot may sync with both PoGo and Ingress now, since there aren’t any other Wayspots in this area, so the 20 meter inclusion rule for Ingress isn’t in effect, and it seems the L17 S2 cell is empty right now.

I also don’t see these as separate murals, but one mural with a few different characters painted on it.

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<removed photo of mesh, even though they put it there I won’t repeat it on a forum>

A Pokestop or portal which is abused in form of VPS scans, by the way. All for a few extra in-game items.

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Let’s just wait and see what Niantic says. We shouldn’t presume any abuse; it seems to be a legitimate request, but a misunderstanding of Wayspots for murals.

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I meant the Wayspot scans. It’s someone’s living room instead of a proper scan. So someone who lives near it just scans their living room over and over again for a few items.

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Thanks for the appeal, @joalejandro1989. We have taken another look but stand by our decision to retire the Wayspot.

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