Wayspot Title:
薪火相傳
Location (lat/lon):
25.079651,121.539711
City, Country:
Taipei City, Taiwan
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Photo Cover of this Wayspot:
This statue stands in front of a military base, which is, frankly speaking, the Air Force Headquarters of R.O.C(Taiwan). You can see the words “國防部空軍司令部 (Ministry of National Defense Air Force Headquarters)” at the entrance next to the statue. And, in OpenStreetMap, this place is also divided into a red area (military camp), which belongs to three camps: Dazhi, Zhongyong, and Boai military camps.
Note: There may be other symbolic buildings around that are Pokestops, but considering that this is a gym, there may be gatherings of players to play games, which is obviously inappropriate at the entrance of a military base.
Wayspots are allowed at military bases, so long as they’re not in a location where base personnel and visitors would not be allowed their phones or other electronic devices.
Given that this isn’t even on the base (it’s outside it), and street view shows people walking past it, I see no issues with it being a wayspot. It doesn’t appear to be obstructing the entrance. If the base commander had any issues with it existing, they would be welcome to contact Niantic using the removal form.
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I completely understand and respect your perspective. However, there are two points I need to add:
First, from this Street View plus moving left and right, you can see that Google Maps uses fogging in this military camp for a large area of the base. If you are familiar with the use of Google, you should know that the situations where atomization is used are often private residences, or more often were military bases “do not want” confidential and sensitive images to be seen through Street View, which proves the sensitivity of this military base.
For related news, please refer to This Report
Translation:
United Daily News reported that the Ministry of National Defense urgently coordinated with Google through a special task force to “disable” this function within a week. After actual testing, it was found that the key military areas in the Greater Taipei metropolitan area on Google Map include the Ministry of National Defense, Air Force Command,…, Xindian Patriot Missile Base and other sensitive camps
Second, after I visited the statue and stayed for a while, the sentry at the camp came up to me and asked what my purpose was. Also, you can see from the Street View that not only the gate locked, but there are also guards patrolling here.
Regarding the blurring, it only seems to be on a small part of the complex that isn’t near to the actual wayspot. Additionally, the satellite imagery is not censored at all, like it is on certain military bases in other countries. Even if it was fully blurred though, the wayspot is still outside the compound and on what appears to be a fully public footpath. It’s not in a sensitive area. It’s also worth noting that anyone can get things blurred on Google Maps. I’ve even blurred things on my own photospheres to protect people’s privacy.
If the sentry comes up to you again and asks you what you are doing, you should be honest with them, and let them know that if there’s a problem with people standing in a public place and using the wayspot to play whatever game you’re playing, they can get the base commander to submit a removal request by going here. Without doing that, the wayspot is unlikely to be removed because it doesn’t appear to violate any rules currently.
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Thanks for the appeal, @EONloveu We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.
Thanks for your reply, I totally understand your point. Anyway, this is not a good place for a gym, that’s all I want to say
