Will moving an active pokestop to a different S2 cell activate already approved waypoints as pokestops?

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Question: It is a known rule that only 1 wayspot can be a pokestop in one S2 cell. My question is, if an S2 cell has 1 active pokestop and there are 2 or 3 approved way spot on the same S2 cell (they are marked as wayspot being used in other niantic games), if that active pokestop got moved to a different S2 cell, will one of the other 2 wayspot become a pokestop?

Note: I am asking since the current active pokestop is located in the wrong spot. I nominated 2 new local businesses that got approved but since an active pokestop is there, they did not become pokestops. Will one of this approved waypoints become pokestops if the current active pokestop was moved?

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Welcome to the forum!

First, ty for stating that this is a physical real-world correction and not just a move for game manipulation. This is what is supposed to happen: if the Wayspot that is currently a Pokestop is moved to a different L17 S2 cell, the cells will be recalculated. The current Pokestop may lose its game status if the correct location is not in a currently empty cell. One of the other Wayspots in the L17 the cell was moved from should be promoted to a Pokestop or gym.

(We have occasionally seen posts here where a moved to a new L17 Poke*thing did not revert status - iirc it has involved gyms - but I would not count on that to happen.)

You said “approved wayspots…being used in other niantic games” and I want to caution others reading this that this only applies to “approved wayspots” - not those imports for power spots that show the same way on the nomination map screen. Those will never be promoted to Pokestops or gyms, unless submitted through Wayfarer and accepted that way.

And I want to be really clear that edits should only be submitted for actually incorrect locations, not for equally accurate locations that will benefit game play.

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Hi @Reggiemechi
Are there any sponsored wayspots involved?
That could probablly change the outcome.

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:woman_facepalming:didn’t mention those - ty. they are also not “approved wayspots”, but if one is in the cell the current pokestop is moved out of, it could keep anything new from going live.

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You mentioned everything else :hugs: