When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible:
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Wayspot Title: Maple sign
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Location (lat/lon): -33.892005,151.200489
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City: Sydney
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Country: Australia
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Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):
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Additional Information (if any):
This portal popped up in Ingress and PoGo about a week ago.
It surprised me, because having lived in the area for 11 years, and walked through there pretty much every day to/from the station, while also playing Ingress (since 2012) and PoGo (since 2016 launch) I’d never noticed the pictured wayspot.
So I walked out there, and sure enough it is nowhere to be seen. I did a lap of the block just to be sure, and I haven’t even found anywhere where it might have previously been.
Notice how the photo has been specifically taken to not include any surrounding landmarks to help locate it? That’s because it’s not there.
See Street View.
The tiles look nothing like that. They’re not square but quite rectangular, they’re not aligned in a grid like this, they’re more blue/grey. Assuming the pictured tiles are a sensible normal size (there’s nothing else to give a sense of scale), I don’t think there’s enough space in the vicinity for that picture to fit without also showing the building, the road, some light poles, a bench etc.
To my knowledge, this does not exist on any public space within hundreds of metres in any direction of the current location. I considered that perhaps somebody submitted a common space from the rooftop of the adjacent residential building, but that does not seem to be the case based on any angle of Google Satellite photos or 3D angles that I could observe:
At this point, I’m quite sure that somebody has submitted a photo from some other location. Since it’s such a recent addition, I’ve got no idea how the Wayfarer system approved it in the first place.