Wayspot Removal Rejected Appeal

Wayspot Appeals
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  • Wayspot Title: Blessed Mother

  • Location (lat/lon): 42.381957, -71.091606

  • City: Somerville, MA

  • Country: USA

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

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  • Additional Information (if any): I submitted this rejection report as this statue is on public property and is just another lawn decoration someone put in their yard; it does not meet the criteria of being permanent or distinct. Here is a screenshot of the location from Google Maps showing the statue is inside someone’s front yard. I have also seen similar statues like this get rejected so trying to keep consistency with contributions and what gets approved.

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Thanks for the appeal, @ryorghas! We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.

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@ryorghas The only thing I can think of is that because the building has entrances on each side, making it a semi-detached building, and the garden is not obviously attached to just one residence, Niantic are treating the garden as belonging to both residences.

Certainly in the UK, the garden infront of a semi-detached property (which this is) usually has a divider (fence, hedge, wall, plants) in the middle to indicate which half belongs to which property, but this isn’t essential for the front space to still be owned separately.

Can you get a land-ownership map for this plot that would indicate whether the front yard is shared or separate?