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Wayspot Title: Casa Guadalupe
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Location *(lat/lon): 42.217048,-8.738028
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City: Vigo
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Country: Spain
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Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):
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Additional Information (if any): The location is an abandoned private residence; access is impossible because it is fenced off and unsafe as the fences are rusted. The building is also on the verge of collapse. I provide with more photos of evidence.
Is it perhaps a monumental building? Pretty sure those are valid, especially when they’re not being used as a residence.
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It is not a monumental building. It has never been open to the public, and the surrounding fences are visibly rusted from years of neglect and deterioration. It is an abandoned private property.
I found this article about it from 2017:
And someone posted a photo on Instagram in 2024, so it looks like he had access to the building: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDOvI30uZjJ/?igsh=MXFzOTEwY2lhbHV6ZQ==
It looks like it was already abandoned for a while on the oldest visible StreetView photo from 2008, so if it’s just some random house, why hasn’t it been demolished yet?
The article you mentioned says it’s just a matter of time before they demolish it to build residential buildings in its place. As for the photos, they were most likely taken through gaps in the entrance gate, because it has a padlock and chains, and there’s a lot of overgrown vegetation inside.
And yet it’s been almost 10 years and it still hasn’t happened yet.
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The wayspot location is at the gate, not on the house itself. The third wayspot photo (which is also the best photo technically) focusses on the gate and should be thumbed up to make it the main photo.
The gate is safely accessible and also interesting enough to act as a proxy for the house. Streetview from 2008 to 2022 (latest) show the gate with no change, so it’s difficult to see that it is necessary to have this wayspot removed.
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In order for your appeal to be successful, you need to proof this statement. merely saying its sfprp is not enough
Do you consider the rusty door of a house clearly abandoned for decades interesting enough to be in the game?
Also, the entrance is located on a pedestrian crossing, so a large gathering of people there, enough to stage a raid, would disrupt both pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
Yes. [Edit - I realised I answer the question I thought the op had said. I consider the rusty gate with name above to be interesting enough to be in the game, which is what the wayspot actually is]
Also, the removal criteria are much stricter than the acceptance criteria. In order to be removed, something generally has to be one of the following
- not there
- on single-family private residential property, school grounds or other ineligible locations
- extremely ineligible such as a standard road sign that is just infrastructure
Something that is borderline, which would be accepted by some people and rejected by others is hard to have removed.
It will be hard to prove that an abandoned building which has been abandoned for over 15 years (based on streetview) is SFPRP (single-family private residential building), but if you can do that, it should be removed.
That is an exaggeration. Wayspots are allowed on pavements and the wayspot is over 10m from the crossing.
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If it is not currently single family residential property then I don’t see what removal criteria it would meet?
This photo doesnt prove anything imho. Do you have other evidence?
The house looks the last of it’s kind in the area, surrounded by appartment buildings. The gate is interesting enough to be a wayspot. Your anger kinda enforced to me you might be trying to game the system to get stops removed, maybe to place one of your own. Or at least you should be worried that Niantic starts to view ur reports this way.
Pavement is definitely appropriate enough for pogo, not every wayspot needs to be able to host “large gatherings”.
Removal threshold is way higher and you shouldn’t overload the system with stops you don’t agree with. Keep it to clearly unsafe stuff. I reported a wayspot that wasn’t even existing anymore but it got rejected, even tho it is clearly gone on new street view images. I successfully nominated a different wayspot for removal: it was in the middle of the highway and the wayspot’s title was the name of the highway (but there was no decorational sign at all).
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According to the Wayfarer map, this wayspot is a Gym, so my money is on him/her wanting a different wayspot in that cell to become a Gym.
Let’s not jump to assumptions.
Thanks for the appeal, @Criticooo! We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.