In an area of our city, where it is a “hot spot” to play, essentially open to the public with pubs, places of historic significance and the boardwalk suddenly had almost all of the waypoints in Pokemon Go (stops and gyms) just disappeared apparently at roughly the same time. About two dozen or so.
A few stops and a power spot still remain in place around what appears to be outside some sort of permiter. It seems odd, it goes along the “Halifax Seaport” and reaches into a residential neighbourhood removing a local park and a church to the extent of it on the southwestern end of things.
It occurred just over an hour ago: Between 3PM and 4PM today February 11, 2025.
I wasn’t sure if a geo-fencing like event occurred: as I’ve seen with some local cemeteries, but it makes no sense because (a) it’s not something sensitive like a cemetery and (b) a public spot with amenities.
It caused two new gyms to trigger in locations outside of it. I see that it extends to the south into a residential neighborhood across the way. I haven’t seen the extent of it there, but it’s about 800 meters from Seaport.
Asides from a recently removed statue in real life (waypoint still in the game), only thing I can think of that was out of place was an Art Gallery sitting on the road.
I am not sure if there were complaints regarding trainers that might have be playing in the parking lots at night (it happens, believe it or not) given there’s a lot of spawns here. The spawns all exist through the area that had many waypoints removed. As I recall, some of these waypoints existed close to the beginning of the game and long before I played.
It would be very busy in all the games with contributions from murals, museums, art galleries, maps, a farmer’s market and several historic plaques and statues.
I am feeling really saddened by what I am seeing. I hope that someone from Niantic can provide answers for our community.
Here is just a quick list within the zone of various public places that meet criteria vanished.
Emmigrant
44.64170153784435, -63.56691397231883
Halifax Chinese Church
44.635286, -63.569394
Grainery Park
44.63336745186413, -63.57158747264912