Removed pokestops on public trail and little library pokestop

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When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible:

  • Wayspot Title: Hatrock Trail Footbridge
  • Location (lat/lon): 41.700869, -93.078777
  • City: lambs grove
  • Country:usa
  • Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):
  • Additional Information (if any): it was removed but is on a trail that goes along the creek and is public access
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Welcome to the forum @valarrian

I looked at these coordinates to try to help you make your best case for restoration for Niantic staff to consider. A portal for a bridge is still live at slightly different coordinates, so maybe it just disappeared in Pokemon Go at sync today and the removal hasn’t synced in Ingress yet?

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Google Maps makes this look like this is on SFPRP - single family private residential property. Can you provide any evidence for the team that this is a public pathway between the homes?

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We’re a small rural town of less than 200 people that uses the nearby town for most of our infrastructure, so unfortunately there are no official trail markers or signs, but it is a great public outdoor area for members of our small community to enjoy the little creek we have.

The pictures i have taken are from south of the bridge facing forward, and in the picture you can actually see a 2nd bridge as the trail crosses over to one side and back to the original side that the trail is on

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I think the issue that @cyndiepooh is getting that is that it looks like this is on private single-family residential property. The map doesn’t seem to indicate there is any public land where a public trail could exist. Do you have any evidence to the contrary that this is in fact a public stretch of land with a trail and not just a bridge over a creek in someone’s backyard?

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Hello and welcome @valarrian
It looks a lovely place.
This is quite tricky. I feel as if I’m in the murky world of USA property lines. I cant tell anything useful from satellite view because of the nice trees.
Looking on streetview from Emerson Houghton Drive there might be signs of a path

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The red dash line looks like it might be a path.
The yellow circle could be a little footbridge or fence.
What is at the green cross small bits of wall that look used for pots to sit on - and the closeness of the back of the house makes this looks like this is someone’s property.
All of this is not at the location of the bridge but it does not give a positive impression of the land usage here.
You are going to have to demonstrate that there is a strip between the houses that is communal land. Otherwise I don’t think this will pass.
At best it’s a very short path and it would be difficult to say it was about exploring.

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Is it possible to upload a video of it on here? I dont have any official records or signage indicating the trail, but the wall on the green x is actually an old 1800s chimney structure and the trail opens up between the trees and goes across the creek on the bridge circled in yellow. The house is farther up the hill than street views makes it appear and is seperated from the trail by a line of trees that are contributing to the poor satellite visibility

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This one will be difficult to impossible. The county property map shows the property lines abutting each other, although there is a trail, it lies on the private residential property of these houses. That makes the trail and bridge ineligible, unfortunately.

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