What does it take to get a non-existent wayspot removed?
FeatherCuffs
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I have a "wayspot" near me that was initially a homemade cross marking the burial location of a small dog. It was dug on property privately owned by a utilities company, so, the fact that it was placed at all is the commission of a criminal act.
This location has been reported as invalid multiple times by multiple agents, through the Ingress scanner. Support tickets have been opened (and closed by Niantic staff). I have made video and submitted a portal scan of the location. The agent that initially submitted the location has openly admitted in comms that the cross is unlikely to have survived 8 years of weathering in the outdoors. I guess I'm just not sure at this point how much more information Niantic needs to know that this wayspot DOES NOT EXIST any longer. What gives?
https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=27.488131,-82.496185&z=15&pll=27.488131,-82.496185
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I've had a fair number of nonexistent (either removed or fake) wayspots taken out of the games. What has worked best for me is using the Wayfarer support chat and submitting geotagged photos It's even better if you can include something in the photo that is identifiable in either street or satellite view, although that might be difficult for this case. I also tend to take a brightly-colored object and place it at the location of the pin (to the best of my ability) to provide a visual reference.
You mean you would reach out here? https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/en/21-wayfarer/contact-us/
Because I'm not seeing a proper category for "wayspot no longer exists"
I'm also not sure what you mean by geotagged photos. I take pictures with my phone camera to nominate portals and I've never had to do anything else to the photo except follow app prompts.
Honestly not sure why agents have to become tech geniuses to make a game function as intended but that's an entirely different and additional rant. 🙃
1) Report invalid in-game
2) When rejected, post appeal in Wayfarer forum
3) Don't post here about Wayfarer stuff
@KonnTower I bet you're real fun at parties
I had luck reporting in pokemon go, i had to do it for over a year. Report it mutiple times and then after some rejections it got removed.
As far as school-territory PoI is kinda easy to remove(in my experience), non-existant or without safe pedestrian access are way more difficult to be deleted. I'd suggest:
1) report and add photosphere on gMaps
2) after report rejected take a photo with geotag (usually camera app can request "add geotags to photo" on initial startup,at lleast aosp one does)
3) take that photos and rejection to wayfarer forum.
Another way is reporting multiple times,but it can take a long time.
You may also ask on the Wayfarer forum. They are really knowledgeable, helpful and friendly.
Coming on a forum stating peple are committing criminal acts for submitting a wayspot sounds like good party banter too, we'd get along great.
You could try this form at the bottom of this page.
You will get an email and be able to reply to it with further information such as geotagged images.
For the wayspot? No. Buring a dead animal on public utilities land? Yeah, that is definitely illegal where I live. Most places actually are kinda funny about "call before you dig" even in your own backyard, out of caution that you don't disrupt utilities services.
He's fun.
Just have to understand how he rolls.
I've had to go into wayfarer occasionally to boot portals that the folks at Central can't see are problems.
There are folks in my box who don't like me because I have no compunction booting portals that need to leave.