Speaking of which, any word from your contact at Google Places team Tony?

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:02:53 AM UTC-5, Ramon Suarez BetaGroup 
Coworking Brussels wrote:
>
>
> I second Tony's request. There are over 2000 coworking spaces right now 
> and at the current rate they will be 4000 by this time next year. 
>
> Other related categories that are not showing up: offices, shared offices, 
> business center, professional community, etc. 
>
>
> On Monday, January 14, 2013 6:25:04 AM UTC+1, [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
>>
>

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