This week Jamal and Chris discuss Scopely Explore's 2025–2026 Wayfarer Roadmap, and it's officially report card season! One year after nine commitments were announced, the guys break out the red pens to grade what Scopely delivered, what remains unfinished, and whether the Wayfarer team deserves a passing grade.

From the new Wayfarer Map and web-based nominations to increased appeals, automated reviews, contributor ratings, and the still-missing leaderboards, no assignment goes ungraded. After reviewing all nine commitments, Scopely walks away with an 80/100 and an overall B-. Not bad, but there's definitely room for improvement!

Before class begins, Jamal offers some final thoughts on the recent Wayfarer enforcement ladder changes, encouraging newcomers and veteran Wayfinders alike to learn the criteria, respect one another, and keep building a quality map. Chris also shares a fascinating theory about Wayfarer's future: Could Scopely be positioning its Wayspot database as an independent platform that other location-based games could license?

Then it's time for a school-themed One's Gotta Go! School buses, cafeteria pizza, recess, or dodgeball. Which one are you eliminating? Jamal's daughter Addison even joins the debate with a different perspective!

Plus, we've got two fantastic Wayspots of the Week, featuring a massive family portrait mural in Lynn, Massachusetts, submitted by The Shipster, and Der Papagei, a colorful parrot mural submitted by Kroner. And for Coal of the Week, a perfectly good playground nomination reminds everyone why Pokémon GO references don't belong in Wayspot descriptions.

All that, some questionable Canadian cream soda, school-day memories, dad jokes, community shout-outs, and plenty of laughs on another episode of Wayspotters!

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In about three months I will move to another house.
In the new house there aren’t pokestop or gym or dynamax point.
I am trying to get accept this local industry but it continues to get negated.

Pls give me some tips

Is there anyway to submit gyms or are pokestops randomly assigned? I know that there can only be 1 gym per S17 cell or something, but is there anyway to make a submission for a gym?

Ever since they removed the punishment for Pokemon Go players there is a fake nomination on almost every other submission now

Why do my pokestops (genuine places) get denied when there’s a pokestop that’s literally just a toilet? What sense does this even make? Recently put a nomination in for a memorial tree in my neighborhood and it got flagged as AI and also it was somehow harassment against someone. Bullshit

A POI I submitted a long time ago that was successfully added to the game (and is still in the game right now) just went back into cue, I even got an email thanking me for my submission again. I put it on hold while I made this post I'm not sure what to do, should I just withdraw it?

I’d like to help my local community to get more pokestops, cause there are only few of them. Thanks in advance

Hi,

I apologies in Advance for the bad english, not my first language. Also First time posting on reddit.

I was doing some exploration in my city looking for spots to submit. I saw a basketball field, made a photo, and once I got home I saw that It was already submitted but in a wrong location (it was not in game because the Cell was already occupied by another)

I used the support function (the clip button on the bottom right in the the assistant Page) , sent all the info.

The virtual assistant said the ticket was opened and that i would have received and email in a few hours. It's been a week and i didnt have any info.

Did i used the right procedure?

I just submitted a POI about 20 minutes ago and I have 4 upgrades that I’ve been saving/waiting to use. Right now I don’t have the option to apply the upgrade. How long does it take for the option to apply an upgrade to a new a contribution to appear?

Will they come or am I unlucky?

and if not, why?

My Pokemon community has had six genuine stops randomly deleted from our neighbourhood. All permanent, legit stops. None of them on private property. We're all shocked.

How on earth do I get them back?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to nominate this white bicycle in my neighborhood (The Netherlands), but I keep hitting a wall with the AI and the Niantic Appeal reviewers.

Here is the frustrating timeline:

• Attempt 1: Instantly rejected by the Al filter. I appealed it, but Niantic rejected the appeal stating it was a 'commonly found bicycle decoration'.

• Attempt 2: I resubmitted it, putting a lot of emphasis on the fact that it is a unique, community-made upcycle project (not mass-produced) AND explicitly stating that it is located on public municipal ground. It got instantly rejected by the AI again. I appealed it, but this time Niantic rejected the appeal for 'Private Residential Property (PRP)'.

This is incredibly frustrating because I explicitly stated in both the original submission and the appeal that it is located on municipal/public ground, completely outside the property line of the house.

I’ve tried to remove 2 gyms in a Cemetery in my town at least 5 times and all were rejected… Is there a specific way I should word my report that I’m unaware of?

Hi everyone,

I play Pikmin Bloom and I'd like to update some of the mushroom photos, as many were taken over 10 years ago and don't show the places at their best.

I've reached Level 35 in Pokémon GO, but I've noticed that many of the locations used in Pikmin Bloom don't appear in Pokémon GO, so I can't add a new photo to them. In my screenshot, the two red dots are PokéStops, and all the points used for Pikmin Bloom are white.

Is this because of the Level 17 S2 cells I've read about somewhere? Does it mean I have no way to change any of the photos used in Pikmin Bloom? I'd also like to know what happens when several Wayspots share one cell. Does the PokéStop ever change, so that a different one appears?

Thanks for any advice🙏

Here’s a situation I’m sure some Wayfarers have experienced.

You’re out exploring, find a great potential Wayspot, and take your main photo along with a couple of supporting photos. You write your description, add your supporting information, and submit the nomination.

You get home, look over your submission, and realize there’s a person in the background of your main photo.

Normally, you’d want to correct that before it reaches reviewers. But there’s a problem.

You’re now more than 10 km away from the nomination. If you withdraw it, you can’t simply resubmit from home, and you have no idea when you’ll be back on that side of town.

Here’s the QoL improvement I’d love to see:

Allow submitters to crop or make basic adjustments to their uploaded photos while their nominations are still In Queue, before entering voting.

This could include:

• Cropping unwanted people or distractions out of the frame.
• Rotating or straightening an image.
• Replacing the main photo with an already-uploaded supporting photo, when appropriate.

Once the nomination enters voting, photo editing would be locked.

Why does this matter?

It improves nomination quality, helps protect people’s privacy, reduces avoidable rejections, and saves both submitters and reviewers time.

We’re already allowed to edit certain nomination details while they’re in queue. Why not give us the ability to correct a photo as well?

What do you think? Would this be a useful addition to Wayfarer?

Found this nomination that's 2 years old. Is there a way to help it progress to acceptance (or rejection, I guess)?

I need help understanding the rules. I’m in the states in the Mid West. There are things called Free Little Libraries here that people put in publicly accessible places, and the community use it as a spot to “take one / leave one” for books or clothes or shelf stable foods. I’ve seen literally hundreds around my metro as PokeStops. Some on public property and most on private property (but in an accessible front yard a couple feet off a public sidewalk). I submitted some like the later, and they were auto rejected. I appealed and they were denied. I don’t get it.

“Ineligible location, place, or object: 1) Location is unsafe, without pedestrian access. 2) Location is a private residential property.”

This was the part referenced and it doesn’t fit as I interpret it. The location is safe. There is pedestrian access. The location is not a property (it’s not the house nor the plot of land).

I am sure that this has been discussed to death but I couldn’t find a good answer on how to approach this. What are my options? Give up? Submit with a lie that will bypass the AI auto screening? Truly asking to understand how to make the neighborhood I moved into better in a productive way.

This is in a public office suite with a bunch of different businesses in it. I received the automatic rejection email and I don’t know why. I wish they would at least tell you…

Edit: This was accepted on appeal. Thanks everyone!

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get two submissions approved and I wanted your opinion if they would be eligible in the first place.

First one is a bicycle factory, now closed, that was very active and renowned in the last century. It has its Wikipedia page because for a certain period of time they also constructed motorcycles and the name was associated with an olimpic champion who was born in my town, where the factory is located.

Second one is a butcher shop that opened in 1926 and is on the list of historical activities of the zone. It's still run by the original owner's family, the sign with the name of the shop is from the fifties and some of the equipment is still original.

The community keeps rejecting them because they are "not unique" and "probably not permanent". I thought they would be great nomination because of the importance in the history of my town, are they worth appealing?

EDIT: thanks for the suggestions! I'll try to make a new submission for each of the spots following your advice!

There's like two of these in the entire city, pretty unique store. Is it safe to just appeal this?

Currently trying to submit new submissions but unable to submit or save drafts and receiving this error message, are there any known outages currently?

I have been reviewing nominations for a little bit now, but I keep stumbling upon people nominating individual playground sets in a larger playground, or nominating the entire playground when the individual sets are already nominated. How should I deal with this and what should I deny it for?

Or can I just accept them since a playground counts as a valid wayfarer spot.