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, oren.s...@gmail.com 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. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
