Players are pretty thankful for a lot of PokeStops everywhere in "Pokemon GO" as they provide their constant supply of Poke Balls and other items—but for those who actually are in charge of the buildings and places that have been turned into PokeStops, players gathering around their property can become a nuisance.
Fortunately, "Pokemon GO" developer Niantic Labs has included a feature that allows proprietors or homeowners to have their place removed as a PokeStop. Even though a business would ideally benefit from having its location or parts of it be PokeStops, sometimes it really just doesn't work well.
Techno Buffalo reports that Provo City, Utah's library was able to have its PokeStops removed from "Pokemon GO." According to the Provo City Library, they just weren't able to keep up with the amount of concerns that were accumulating due to the PokeStops in their vicinity. A library is just that: a place where people can study and read books in peace, and "Pokemon GO" just runs counter to the spirit of a library.
So how does one go about removing their "Pokemon GO" PokeStops? The process is really simple, actually—the official "Pokemon GO" page on the Niantic site has a web form for all removal requests, complete with a drop-down menu for your official reason. Available reasons include danger, inaccurate placing by the map, the fact that it's private property, or other reasons.
How does a place become a PokeStop in "Pokemon GO," anyway? The theory is simple: in Niantic's previous mobile game, "Ingress," players were tasked to identify significant landmarks in order to create portals. It's likely that Niantic just took the database of portals created in "Ingress" and applied them to "Pokemon GO," which is why seemingly innocuous things, such as paintings or murals, end up being PokeStops.
