A Wayspot project is usually involved in an area you love to build for the community, or submissions that you experiment successfully within a location, may it be as small as your local town/neighborhood or as big as a tourist destination/university,…
What is your most proudest and favorite Wayspot project in 2025. Small or big, it is all welcomed for talking!
Me first, it is me experiementing with more unusual wayspot(Bridge scenic view) and filling a water park.
3 Bridge(1 bridge has bad image)
4 Pavillions(yes they are boring)
1 Swimming pool
1 Playground for children
1 Wall art
Adding a bunch of wayspots (seventeen) down a ~2 mile stretch of long-distance trail north of Leek, Staffordshire UK. There were a few existing wayspots scattered around, but I’d like to think the new ones might encourage more people to use the trail.
For an individual wayspot, it’s my first bench-with-a-view, below Snowdon.
Development of the suite of map tools to enhance users’ Wayfarer experience. It has taken a lot of time but has been a fun cognitive challenge and I’m happy with the result.
Thank you to all the Ambassadors for your work this year! Also a thank you to the regulars volunteering their time to coach and educate the community. I have learned a lot this past year to be a better explorer!
Once they actually go through the queue, it’s adding a lot of stuff in Sal, Cabo Verde.
With only a couple of nominations before 2025 and being someone who only nominates in low numbers I don’t consider any to be particularly “proud” so I will just mention a few highlights…
Understand that this isn’t exactly the question asked but hope you don’t mind me indulging myself.
Similar to @SlimboyFat71 , I really started wayfaring this year for the first time, so I didn’t really go in with “projects” the same way I’m working toward for 2026 (including my March trip to Milwaukee that I’m looking forward to; the Baird Center and its surroundings will be met with a full 40 noms in pocket).
But I’ve made my walk home work much more worth playing, adding 4 stops within the plaza itself, about six more on the walk, and ensuring the creation of two gyms in that area.
And the downtown area of the town I live in (which was a good place to play before) now has several new stops, many of which are examples of lighting art, murals and stonecarving/statues. But there’s also some really unique spots, like the cross-shaped memorial rose garden at a local church, or a medical office building that’s on a state landmark list for being an example of historical architecture.
I’ve connected with local campfire groups and discord servers, helping spread word of Eligible Things people didn’t know about, like plaza signs and yoga studios. I’ve talked to business owners about what I was doing, taking pictures of their building and signage. I’ve spoken online to a bunch of really cool wayfarers, some of whom I hope to see at Go Fest Chicago.
…and I’ve had fun.
I just have to pick one? Ouch, I’m spoiled for choice here. I think my ongoing quest to fill in the holes in my personal maps can be wrapped into one project, though: I did get all the North Country counties at least one new submission for my New York State map, so now I have only the Capital, Downstate, and some NYC Metro counties to complete that map. I also added a new country, Japan, to my accepted nomination list - and new states like New Jersey and Florida, too!
Traveling and finding great new stuff to submit will always be my priority, but I also had the added bonus of meeting so many fellow Wayfarer enthusiasts in my travels and at the Wayfarer booth at GoFest (NJ) which only added to the fun. Safe travels to everyone in 2026!
My office moved locations at the end of last year. The old office had 2 Gyms within reach of the building; the new office has a nearby Gym but not reachable.
Despite nominating POIs here and there for the past 5 years, I didn’t overly read anything about criterias, guidelines, or cells and just winged it. Surprisingly successful most of the time.
It took 14 nominations (1 rejected, 13 accepted) and actually reading up on cells to finally create the final gym in the correct L14 cell to flip an established Stop reachable from the office into a Gym (have 2 coworkers that also play and were bummed we no longer had convenient access to Gyms for raids). Also 3 of the 13 accepted are reachable Stops.
I also successfully changed many photos of POIs I spin so my gifts are prettier for sending.
Not exactly a project ….
But the sale and subsequent split, with Ingress staying at Spatial and Wayfarer going to Scopely threw a lot of things up in the air.
I’d always submitted to wayfarer through Ingress - OPR and then wayfarer. So I had to say farewell to that and start afresh by submitting via Pokémon Go ( not as nice an experience 
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My first submission via Ingress was play equipment and as it happened so was my last. That ingress submitting had a lot of mistakes and learning over the years. 
So the second half of 2025 my “project” was getting used to PoGo and 10km limit on submission distance ( not really adjusted to that fully yet😂). But I am loving the web submission and the 5 images you can submit.
So going into 2026 I will continue with that project. 
I went with family to my uncle’s hometown in Italy this summer. Before going, I scoped out all the wayspots on ingress and there weren’t a lot and none of the photos had been updated in like 7+ years.
I updated every single wayspot photo (except one that I couldn’t find, though I don’t know if it was missing, or just small and it was getting dark when I got to it) and submitted every eligible POI that wasn’t in game. This ended up being 19 photos and 13 new wayspots for the town.
I hope I get to go back to the town in the future because it was really lovely and I want to send people gifts from all the new pokestops and gyms. There was also a whole section of town I didn’t have time to explore, so I’m sure there’s much more to submit.
There’s been a couple areas this year which had relatively little in the way of pokestops and gyms that I completely overhauled with double-digit nominations. There were 3 places in particular where I was able to create 3-6 gyms a piece within one continuous area: 2 towns surrounding local train stations, and a large hiking trail that was accessible near another train station. Generally speaking a lot of my nominations this year stemmed from me exploring around a lot of my metro’s train stations that I wouldn’t have otherwise thought to stop at before, and one of the really neat parts of that is I get to see just how much more vibrant the play areas are now from the train on my regular commutes on the train lines.
Submitted a recently installed history walk through the heart of Boise. Only about a third made it into Pokémon Go due to density rules, but expanded the play box at the extremes of the walk. Learned something about the local history along the way. Still one more to be installed due to the block being under construction.
I used to submit in both Ingress and PoGo (mainly PoGo). The latter was and is my primary game but I loved having the additional 40 nominations when needed, and also loved the greater distance limit on remote submissions.
It would be nice to see the remote distance limit increased… at least on the Wayfarer site submission.
As for my proudest project, I guess it’s this one. Only the western half of this was done in 2025 (and in December, too!). Trail markers are not exciting submissions but it’s great fun to add a bunch of wayspots to a location where players actually have to get out of their cars and explore nature… “touch grass” as the kids say.
I live in a small town and have added 30 waypoints to our water park. Already noticing a increase in foot traffic there due… Not much to do in that town and it’s nice seeing the park being used more and more
Mine was in my town. 49 wayspots in one year in one town. I made 78 wayspots in total in 2025.
I started with wayfarer exactly one year go now. I have submitted over 340 spots in one year which I am pretty proud of if I say so myself. I have about a 60% acceptance rate with increasing rate. I have made my village from a decaying one, to a paradise with wayspots everywhere, helped to restart a community in my village and was lucky to get many things by my house nominated. So 2025 was an excellent year for me. Hopefully 2026 is just as good
