One of our members is on the Places team; I forwarded this to him and will update you on his response!
On Monday, January 14, 2013, [email protected] wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
