Restoration Request: Public Byway Marker heading up Moss Road

Wayspot Appeals
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  • Wayspot Title: Public Byway Marker heading up Moss Road
  • Location (lat/lon): 53.318200, -1.557337
  • City: Sheffield
  • Country: UK
  • Additional Information (if any): Legitimate public rights-of-way marker that was accepted by Niantic (“our team”) on 2024-08-21 but has since disappeared. Might have been removed in the purge of eMiLy-accepted wayspots. It’s in the countryside on a non-tarmaced track that is an ancient route across the moors, although a (quiet) tarmaced road does come up to the same junction and end here at a parking spot for access to the moors - with this track being one of two routes from here.
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You can have an appeal for more than one POI restoration, so I’m tagging your other one here:

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Two cents worth - this is just a PROW (public right of way) directional marker and is not distinct. If you can spin Moss Road as being a trail or part of a trail then that might be worth a resubmission.

I note the Sheffield Country Walk / Sheffield Way runs south of this point, but this isn’t part of that.

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I understand tbe reluctance to see PROW markers as wayspots, but around a year ago Niantic surprised most people (jncluding me) by finally saying fhey were eligible.

The original thtead was lost in rhe revamp but fhe official guidance is at Wayfarer Criteria Challenge - #6 by NianticTintino

PROW markers are eligible. Not guaranteed and not automatically gpod wayspots, but certainly eligoble.

This is in the countryside at the edge of moorland. Asmittedly with a road ending at that point, but a small quiet dead-end road - which also makds this an access point which i have used myself several tkmes.

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There are different types of PROW. This is signage for a byway.

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This is a byway, named SHE 52. The discussions about PROW have focussed on footpaths and bridleways. My initial reaction was that this might have been about the start of the bridleway.

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Street view is old but you can see the marker and that it’s a rough track.
It’s a relatively short route. I can see it makes a nice walking circuit with the bridleway in particular. You would need to make a very good case because for me the fact that vehicles can use it (although experience tells me that is likely to be rare) makes it not so obviously good.

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To note that this should be considered along with

As the same applies.