What is really nice, sidewalks are not required. Quiet neighbourhood, players can create their routes and walk.
You will love it even more if the next round of the experiment includes mailboxes, I hope it does 
At the bear minimum, give each Level 14 cell two Wayspots!
If there is already a Pokéstop in an L17 cell that contains the street corner, will an experimental Pokéstop still be added there? Or will it become a Powerspot?
I believe this special Wayspot is necessary. There are regions with few locations or objects that meet Wayfarer criteria. If we cannot provide a satisfactory service to users in such areas, the Wayfarer system will become an obstacle to Niantic’s business.
However, the specific names for these Wayspots might be worth reconsidering. While specific names are certainly necessary for management purposes like handling complaints, is it truly essential for the name to directly indicate the location, even if the selected spot is a bus stop or intersection? To eliminate the potential for misunderstanding among those newly eligible for Wayfarer participation, assigning management numbers might be preferable. For example, using a number like “Support Wayspot #NK1124508” – consisting of two random letters followed by a 6-7 digit sequential number – would be manageable administratively and avoid misleading users about the criteria.
Congratulations to the busstopbros you are seen and validated.
These experimental Pokestops do not mean these are eligible without meeting criteria in another way now. To be clear.
They’re rejectable in the way they have always been.
If they aren’t a hub, something artistic or the one and only than a submission for a generic bus stop should be rejected.
You appear to have misunderstood both how the criteria is applied and the point of the bus stop additions.
The new pokestops do not change the criteria and cannot be used to justify wayspots that don’t meet criteria.
A bus stop does not meet criteria. Something at the bus-stop might meet criteria. This has always been the case and has not changed.
New to the convo, as my local street corner just got one of these Pokestops yesterday. Yay! And also, I have privacy concerns with the labeling used. Maybe this has already been flagged by others?
The name of the Pokestop by me is the name of my cross-streets. I live in a rural location. When I send a postcard from my newly installed Pokestop, the name of the stop on the postcard tells the recipient exactly where I live. Whattttttt.
I hope this naming convention can be revisited, because this is a big safety concern.
Welcome to the forum! I am going to tag @NianticTintino to be sure the issue you have with them doesn’t get lost in the conversation.
As a stop gap measure, regarding your privacy concerns: consider not sending those postcards and just delete them 
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Good luck I hope your issue is addressed!
All gifts do that to a point, albeit not via road names. Maybe you can prioritise sending these particular gifts to people who already know where you live? Ie real life friends?
it’s a fair concern to raise. It might also help to know that some of this isn’t entirely new:
- pokéstops/gyms/wayspots/portals are public and have long been discoverable using their name/photo, and general area using mission creator, or browsing the wayspot map, or asking local community,
- imported power spots and such can be traced back to their original source databases,
- abusers may scrape publicly available data,
- because of that, it’s generally a good idea to be cautious with certain things near your home (besides sending gifts from nearby stops): inviting random players to raids at a home gym, leaving pokémon in a home gym or power points, sending home postcards to the monster hunter base, capturing home portal, etc.
but agree, gifts with street names make it worse.
@NianticTintino I have seen some locations in other states got these new Pokestops. I have yet to see any of these anywhere in my general area, and have discussed with others in surrounding communities that have not either.
Was all the new wayspots already rolled out or is it still a work in progress?
Its the same logic if you live next to things like park, church, etc and you send postcard. People will know that you live near that park, church, etc. People wont know exactly where you live unless you publicly said that you have couch pokestop or put lure often
This sounds suspiciously like AI slop. Is it going to be AI slop?
I’m only familiar with PoGo-led cases, but when PoGo introduced PokéStops named “Niantic” as part of a large-scale campaign in Indonesia, the Niantic logo was displayed.
It would probably be most straightforward if the Wayfarer team handled it similarly.
This is why I disabled my username being shown on my (accepted) nominations and photo submissions. Most of my submissions are near my home or work area.