When submitting a Wayspot Appeal, make sure to include as much of the following information as possible:
- Wayspot Title: Schild für die Historische NOK Route
- Location (lat/lon): 54.269902,9.611047)
- City: Nübbel, Schleswig-Holstein
- Country: Germany
- Screenshot of the Rejection Email
- Additional Information (if any):
During review, I noticed a wayspot for a trail marker that I suspected to be fake because the location is not actually on the route of the trail in question.
The trails use the following trail markers:
A yellow arrow for the hiking trail
The standard square themed tour attachment to directional signs for the biking trail
Example from this village
The sign in questions seems to be a local one which can be seen on the actual route. However, the routes of the tours do not actually pass that point.
At first, I thought that the sign couldn’t be in that location at all. But this angle on Google Maps does seem to confirm the location of the sign, even if it seems to be on SFPRP.
Now my question is, are directional signs merely pointing to a hiking or biking trail eligible to be wayspots? Why are they not removed even if they are on SFPRP? What makes these different from the Dutch trail markers that point to a node junction which are regularly removed even if they are not on SFPRP?
Generally, not eligible for submission, but this won’t meet removal criteria on that basis.
I can’t see any signs on SFPRP in what you have posted.
The wording here is clear that signs that are simply directional signs are not eligible, they are not part of a specific route.
The example given is about directions to places. I would regard a sign that points towards where the trail is as generally not part of the route.
I say generally, because sometimes there are access point spurs and official maps recognise these as integral to the trail.
So the question I ask myself is - is this sign telling me it’s over there or does this truly mark a start of following a trail, and I should be prepared to evidence that.
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I mean the street lamp the sign is on looks to be in this house’s front yard so I would assume it’s SFPRP
Ah. I think I know why I couldn’t see any markers in someone’s yard - the marker isn’t there on that street lamp in streetview from 2022. I agree from the angle of the wayspot photo that the picture is almost certainly of a marker on that lamppost which is definitely inside the front garden. That seems to be like an unusual situation which might have confused the removal reviewer?
(I can’t tell if this marker is a trail marker or pointing towards a trail.)
That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a street light standing in someone’s yard as opposed to on the sidewalk.
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