I’ve had clay and grass courts duped because they’re both enclosed by 1 larger fence instead of looking at the fencing separating them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It’s hard to argue with fencing
But there was guidance saying otherwise about sporting fields because of size and the example was baseball fields.
I think this is 1 that is down to the reviewers to use “best judgement”. A previous thread about a tennis club It was not black and white with the comments.
I did argue with the fence . It is one facility so even if the there are multiple fenced areas I still vote as 1 nomination.
“5 a Side” will each be fenced but if you had 4 pitches at the facility I would still vote as 1 nomination.
When people report seeking something that is wrong ( I know it’s not what you want to hear but golf courses are removed) then it is likely that other things that are also nearby may also have been brought to the attention of the team. And hence the football pitches.
It is certainly possible to submit wayspots of one for each field. Often they are not numbered on site in the U.K. I have been to sports facilities with 25 pitches and none are numbered on the goal posts for example. There is likely to be a back room system of numbering for booking but it is not always publically available on a map to match up.
That I think is an issue.
So it would be helpful if the council parks department could help you by making a PDF of the fields with numbers on line.
I have looked at what I could see on Ingress which is out of date. I don’t know which have gone. There were several instances of the wayspot placed in the middle of the field. If you read the clarification that is incorrect placement. You could check from your local knowledge and see if those have been removed?
By the wild area I presume you mean the one at the football fields. Are you certain the pin placement as accurate?
I wouldn’t have thought it safe to have a metal pole and board that close to the field of play as it would be easy to incur a serious injury. From the background it does look in that vicinity but maybe it’s slightly out. I would think that providing a number of geolocated photos could prove if that is the pin and stand a good chance of restoration.
Since the football fields have mostly gone you could resubmit with the numbers and type, 5 aside, 7 aside full size etc with waypoints as per guidelines along the edge of the pitch so as not to interfere. With good planning you could get more than 5 back.
Plan
So pitch and putt is a no go.
Football pitches get parks dept PDF of fields, plan and renominate in line with guidelines and you should have a good area.
Get proof of location for wild area.
That looks like a clear indication from Niantic that the multiple football pitches are duplicates. They have done this elsewhere (left the wayspots in place, but removed from Pokemon Go) to prevent resubmission.
That aerial view is out of date. The council mows the area every other year to update it. It’s not a hard defined border. The placement is correct for the sign. I was standing beside it when I subbed it to make sure.
These two sentences conflict. The OP says the wayspots have been removed from Pogo only but remain in the database, so appear on the nomination map. This is consistent with what I said and with what Niantic have done in other places.
Normally, wayspots are removed entirely for being duplicate, and there is no need to keep the duplicate on the nomination map since the primary already acts to prevent acceptance by reviewers. This is not that situation as Niantic want to prevent resubmission.
In the USA they routinely have multiple individual pitches.
Each football field is where an entire game is played, and so is an entity in its own right if it is distinct from others. That is why I have seen 4 separate baseball fields fanning out from a central point.
@mir1377 when you go to the location and you are right on the spot ready to submit , are the previous wayspots there as orange pins. Sorry to ask the questions but I don’t have access to the information. I’m beginning to feel it would be easier to drive over
Number 2 is on the edge of the pitch. Number 3 is on a goal post. 1 of the goal posts are what have always been used in the UK as permanent feature of a football pitch.
@elijustrying is suggesting an app called GPSmapcamera. This doesn’t require lots of money and is a different solution to photospheres. It’s a way of watermarking a photo with the GPS coordinates.
I have not found a decent explanation for why Google almost completely disabled photosphere submissions, even from high-end google phones. The best answer I can come up with myself is that the quality of the images was not good enough for them, but this is only a problem if you zoom in on the detail - a standard android phone is not good enough to take sharp pictures all the way round.
For me, the existence of an acceptable photosphere adds a lot to a place, but I guess google wanted quality over quantity.
Ok if they got moved tgat is reasonable. And it will recalculate and if viable they will reappear.
My best guess is that because there was no synce yesterday that didn’t happen but should tonight