I attached screenshots of the post. Apparently it got tagged by the community as private property. I filled an appeal and it got rejected. After checking the internet for the laws about private property ( not that people need the law to know anything on the street is not private property) I basically ended up figuring out that the answer of my question is yes, if you place something infront of your home and infront of your home decoration or anything else its public property since its on the side walk and its officially territory of the state and city you live in. Doesn’t matter if you have actual side walk or patch of grass like its shown on the screenshots. You still don’t own it. Question is:
Do I have to create another submission, wait 20 days for it to be rejected by reviewers, then spend another 20 days for appeal and then wait another 5 days for it to be approved?
You will struggle to get these lions accepted as a wayspot. You would be better off spending your time finding something eligible.
The laws around what is private property in front of someone’s house vary from country to country, so it isn’t possible to give a blanket rule. However, I’m fairly sure that whatever country a pair of gate sentries like that existed in, they would be rejected as SFPRP if the residence is SFPRP (single-family private residential property).
Sometimes this get accepted that shouldn’t. Sometimes the criteria changes. This is the former. You can report it for removal as it meets removal criteria. If no-one reports it, that is why it stays in the game. That isn’t a decision by Niantic - it’s down to the local players who accepted it in the first place and the local players who don’t report it for removal.
Wayspot submissions are reviewed by the community. Niantic pull a few in for internal review, but only a minority. ML is used to try and remove the worst submissions.
These don’t prove anything except that ineligible, misplaced and abusive wayspots do make it through, but that doesn’t meant it is OK to submit ineligible, misplaced and abusive wayspots.
Its not ok to submit ineligible, misplaced and abusive wayspots but I never did any of that to begin with. The criterias are written in good enough way as well as the community values these places for them to be submitted. Just some people manage to pass their submissions when its they are not supposed to and others are straight out rejected.
Also reporting on someone having valid claim against unjust rejection by the reviewers of the submission since they can be trolling as well as the appeal reviewer disregarding valid facts and the ACTUAL LAW of the country is not cool.
Hi @rl15092000
Even if your local law marks the location as public, the lions are a private installation.
If the lions have been put there with permission of the council (as an art project, or a social project for beautification of the neighborhood) you will need some sort of proof therefore. Maybe a link to the project.
If it’s only put outside by the owner without official permission than they’re occupying public space wrongfully and a wayspot should not honor that.
