I’m trying to get into the community a bit more by helping adding waypoints and editing out of date waypoints.
This bar changed name from “The Century” to “Mo Chara” years ago. Since changing it has become a major part of the town, winning best craft beer bar in all of Ireland!
The title edit was rejected, to which it was appealed. The appeal was also rejected. You can clearly see on Google Maps also, the bar is called “Mo Chara”. Reason being “It is not related to the object that it represents”. Which it absolutely is!
I’m very confused by this. The waypoint is the correct waypoint, the information is correct. I even added “Mo Chara” in the description of the waypoint and that was accepted ages before! So, the description says it, but apparently the title can’t be updated?
Where do we go from here? Apparently I’m breaking the policy. But I’m very confused as to how.
Hi @One337
Welcome to the forum
The correct way to go foward is, that you request the removal of the old bar wayspot and nominate the new one.
What you’re trying to do right now is called “repurposing” and niantic don’t want that.
The new bar needs it’s own nomination process.
A fellow wayfarer out of this community gives the advice to nominate first the new pub (it must be family friendly, open for children as well), so if the old get removed, the new one could pop up with the same synch.
That’s right yes, The Century was the name of the place for a long time (you could say centuries, excuse the pun). It closed ages ago and local guys opened their own bar in the same place. Improved it massively.
I’ll keep in mind for this type of thing in future, that as Alice mentioned it needs to be removed and a new waypoint be created.
As it is unethical to choose not to update Niantic’s map for them since they refuse to incorporate appropriate and logical updates to existing wayspots, please make sure to break any routes associated with this wayspot by reporting it for removal.
Thanks although that is what happens in the UK very frequently so it would be nice to know where the line is drawn and something should be completely removed.
To say it’s a completely different business shows a lack of understanding on how pubs in the RoI and the UK function.
I’d like to just mention, this bar has become one of the best places in the town to go to. The century was a neglected, run down bar for a long time. Mo Chara won best craft beer bar in Ireland recently and attracts massive crowds every day. The food is phenomenal as well.
I do think it deserves the effort to be updated correctly.
It’s definitely unfortunate that Niantic has chosen to purposefully make this difficult and have negative impacts on games. I agree that it would make sense to update the wayspot associated with this pub so that it properly reflects the current name, but Niantic has made it clear that they do not want this to happen
The app is not meant to be used for that sort of thing.
So otherwise if you are too far away there is probably little you can do at the moment and it will just have to wait.