Hey y'all, I just wanted to reach out and share a concern of mine regarding Google Places and see if we might be able to solve this together as a community.
It would appear (see attached screenshot below for context) that no combination of "coworking, coworking space, cowork space, cowork, etc." was available as a pre-existing category. I think this is something we should work to fix ASAP since a lot of services scrape Google Places to aggregate lists of places by category. If coworking were actually a category in their system rather than being a custom category, we might actually have a really solid self-curated list of coworking spaces everywhere. In general, this would help to raise visibility of all coworking spaces and make them more discoverable. So now I'm going to ask does anyone on these boards know anyone on the Google Places team that can make this happen? <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/--_6BUzIIu3o/UPOSK07dBjI/AAAAAAAAACY/tAaj_4DmKbc/s1600/google+places.tiff> Also while on the subject, I'd like to ask, given the current constraints of the Google Places system, what categories and custom categories space operators have been using to market yourselves? Also, I tried looking up in the annals of this Google Group a unified map of coworking spaces worldwide and only found the following dead link ( http://www.coworking.info) on this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/coworking/google$20places/coworking/wSjlp2mBm58/03EQEA2PhI8J Does any one know if this has been migrated somewhere else or possibly know if a new project has taken its place? Thanks, Oren -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
