Wayspot not accepted

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  • Wayspot Title: Ruínas da Antiga Usina de Cana-de-Açucar de Carapebus

  • Location (lat/lon): -22.18753263747184, -41.66076495293333

  • City: Carapebus - Rio de Janeiro

  • Country: Brasil

  • Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):


  • Additional Information (if any): It’s a historic local in the city, frequently visited by schools to learn about its history. For many years, it was the main center of sugarcane production. Currently, the Carapebus city government is responsible for the area, which has become a public space dedicated to the municipality’s history and easily accessible to the public. It was the city’s main employment center, and students sometimes even visit the site, as it was important to the city.

The image I included was taken at one of the site’s entrances. It’s very clear, and the description I provided matches the site’s information. I don’t understand why it was rejected.

Note:

In my last submission, they said the image couldn’t be from Google Maps. I went to the location and took a real photo, and it still gave me a refused.

That was the reason it was rejected last time, I uploaded it again with a recent photo I took and with the same description and it was still rejected.

Hello,

Did you upload any of the photos to Google Maps or another website?

Also, are you willing to share the entire nomination that the appeals team rejected, including the description, location, and supporting info/photo?

No, I took this picture the same day I sent it from my iPhone, I can take another one right now if needed. I have not shared the image anywhere else.

I will share the complete information



I also transcribed the texts from the image to make it easier:

Envio de Wayspot para Ruínas da Antiga Usina de Cana-de-Açucar de Carapebus

Não aceito
2025-08-05
A solicitação foi recusada pelo processo automático da Niantic por não atender aos critérios do Wayfarer

Descrição
Restos históricos da antiga usina de Carapebus que simboliza a riqueza e o crescimento industrial da cidade.

R. Elías Agostinho, 105 - Caxangá, Carapebus - RJ, 27998-000, Brasil

Informação complementar

É um local histórico na cidade, frequentemente visitado por escolas para aprender sobre sua história. Por muitos anos, foi o principal centro de produção de cana-de-açúcar. Atualmente, a prefeitura de Carapebus é responsável pela área, que se tornou um espaço público sobre a história do municipio e de fácil acesso à população. Foi o principal centro de emprego da cidade e as vezes tem até visitas de alunos ao local, já que foi importante para a cidade

I took some more photos of the place now:




City Hall website where it talks about the plant:

www.carapebus.rj.gov.br/?INT_PAG=15554

“The Carapebus Sugar Mill was founded in 1927, a time when many other sugar mills still existed in the region, and was the primary source of income and employment for the then third district of Macaé. Carapebus acquired municipal autonomy on July 19, 1995, through the enactment of Law No. 2471, and was established on January 1, 1997.”

Video telling the history of the municipality’s power plant:

Reinforcing importance as a historical point of the city.

I had made a previous submission before the one I just made, and it was also rejected. In the previous submission, they asked me to correct the image, so I went to the location and took the photo. Then, I resubmitted the request, and it was automatically rejected. I didn’t understand the reason because I did exactly what they asked me to do last time. I will show below what they had asked me in the first rejection:

2025-08-01 - First shipment


2025-08-05 - Second shipment - Or more recent.

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@DTrain2002 hello?

Hi

I am moving this to nomination support.

Am I following this correctly you resubmitted with your own photo and that too has been rejected.

Are you seeking further help with a fresh appeal or submission?

@elijustrying Hello, the first time I submitted a photo, it was a screenshot I took from Google Maps, and it was rejected for being identified as a third-party photo. So I went to the location and took a new, recent photo myself, but it was also automatically rejected. I used the same description as in the first submission; the only thing I changed was the photo, this time to one I personally took, just like the examples I sent above. I would like to request a re-evaluation of this last submission that was rejected. If the first rejection was due to the photo and I corrected that by taking my own, it does not make sense for it to be automatically rejected the second time.

Unfortunately if things kept getting rejection from AI, u might need to appeal it. We dont know how AI work amd we probably never will because it will be abused

Since you don’t seem to have an appeal I would try again.

Try to crop it a bit more square taking out some of the road in front and write a fuller description if possible. It may get rejected again but you have to try to try and improve what you are submitting.