Niantic Wayfarer is very disappointing and discouraging. We do our best to help create new stops and with no real reason it is not approved or even WORSE approved, but no spot appears. If I am creating pokestops, it is because we need more stops where I live. I no longer feel excited nor compelled to create any new stops when for the work I put in to create it is not being rewarded.
YES, I expect to be rewarded for my service.
Hello and welcome,
Sorry to hear of your disappointment with Wayfarer. Let’s start with what Wayfarer is.
What we are doing with Wayfarer is nominating Wayspots for the Spatial/Lightship map, not stops/gyms for PoGo or portals for Ingress, regardless of what each game says. Approved Wayspots get added to the map, which each game uses to determine game place locations. Each game uses different density/inclusion rules to determine which Waysptos will appear in-game; PoGo uses S2 cells, while Ingress uses a 20 m rule. More info on the S2 cell system in PoGo can be found here:
https://pokemongohub.net/post/featured/comprehensive-guide-s2-cells-pokemon-go/
As for your nominations that have been rejected, you are more than welcome to post about them in the Nomination Support topic to see if they could be improved upon. We’re always happy to take a look at them.
Unfortunately, there aren’t many rewards for doing Wayfarer aside from the review badges in PoGo/Ingress. We’re basically adding interesting POIs to the map for free. We do have challenges from time to time where we can get in-game rewards, but these don’t happen as much as they used to. I’m ok with not getting many rewards from Wayfarer, as I’m glad to get out and explore my community to find new and interesting POIs to add to the map, and hope that they get used in at least 1 Niantic game, or even by the developers that use the map.