Categories: a bunch are added, a bunch are removed

Sometimes, when new categories are added, a lot of them are thematically similar (restaurants, healthcare, etc). You can check the previous category-posts lnked in the category overview post for specific examples.

This time, however, the list of new categories added in the previous months is really divers:

Bee relocation service
Branding agency
Cannabis club
Dryer vent cleaning service
Farrier service
Financial advisor
Mohel
Musician and composer
Neuropsychologist
Orthopedic supplies store
Pilgrim hostel
Rehearsal studio
Religious lodging
Smoke shop
State parliament
Uyghur cuisine restaurant

Some of those are really specific, in the sense that they’re probably not going to be used for a lot of POIs, but I can fully understand that they are added as there is no more general category that would make sense for them - think of Bee relovation service or Farrier service (something with horses’ hoofs - I had to look it up myself too).

I was surprised to see Smoke shop, as there already was Tobacco shop, but then again - not all products for smoking contain toboacco these days, right? And some of the new categories are bound to cause confusion too (no news there :wink: ). The best example is Financial advisor, which will be hard to disitnguish from the existing categories Financial consultant, Financial planner or even Finance broker.

Please let me know in the comments which of the new categories will help you most in your area/country.

This time there is also quite a long list of categories which are no longer in the list; in some cases it is easy to understand why, e.g. Low emission zone (there certainly still are those, but you can hardly call them a POI) or Information bureau (a description you could use for anything and nothing, if you ask me). Here is the complete list of removed categories:

Agriculture cooperative
Art handcraft
Assembly room
Communications central
Employment search service
Fund management company
Geologist
Hygiene station
Information bureau
Liquor wholesaler
Low emission zone
Microbiologist
New Years tree market
Public webcam
Pumping equipment and service
Real estate fair
Ship building
Spa town
Steelwork manufacturer
Tag agency
Vehicle examination office

Are there any ones you regret being removed? Let me know in the comments! In any case this is once again an excellent opportunity to score some local guides points, should you be in need of those: for any POI you can find with one of the removed categories still appled to it, you could try to find an new, more fitting category.

And of course, as always, you can start the hunt for POIs where it makes sense to apply one of the newly added categories (which has been a major factor contributing to my reaching level 10 a couple of years ago :wink: )

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@JanVanHaver fĂĽr was steht POI

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Point of Interest (a business or other place on Maps) @Annaelisa

See also

https://letsguidepodcast.com/lexicon/

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Hi @JanVanHaver

Thanks for another post in this series.

I don’t think we will miss any of the removed categories. “Public webcam” is the only one I remember dealing with.

How is a “Smoke shop” different from a “Tobacco shop”? Since “Vaporizer store” is already on the category list.

How is a “Farrier service” any different from a “Horseshoe smith”?

And I don’t expect to be looking for acircumciser on Google Maps anytime soon :wink:

Cheers

Morten

PS Farrier service has already been translated into Danish.

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@JanVanHaver erst Mal Danke ich sehe mir das ganze in Ruhe an

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Thank you, @JanVanHaver ! I was just hunting for a list of all available categorize other day. In certain countries, electric scooters and mopeds with replaceable batteries are becoming very popular. There are large replacement battery stations set up around the city where you can get a freshly charged battery and leave your drained battery in the kiosk. These should probably get their own category besides EV Charging Station, but I wasn’t able to find anything specific. Maybe that’s for a future update.

Also, why would a place like Bee Removal need to be marked on the map? You don’t bring your bees there, they come to you.

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@JanVanHaver zu den Kategorien, ich konnte noch nicht die Auswirkungen sehen aber in der Vergangenheit war die Auswahl sehr begrenzt und hat mich so manches Mal zur Verzweiflung gebracht weil ich nicht die zutreffende Bezeichnung eingeben konnte.

Die Beschreibungsliste für die Abkürzungen ist sehr hilfreich und ihren Podcast habe ich mir angehört aber leider nur einzelne Wörter verstanden und nicht den Inhalt als solches.

Schön wäre es das ganze auf deutsch nachlesen zu können.

Herzliche GrĂĽĂźe Annaelisa

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@Annaelisa Wichtig ist es zu wissen dass man nicht eingeschränkt ist bis auf der angezeigte Liste mit Kategorien - du kannst auch einfach einfangen zu tippen um weitere Kategorien angezeigt zu bekommen.

Und zum Thema Podcast: Ich kann noch nichts versprechen, aber ich plane schon länger auch Mal eine Episode auf Deutsch zu erstellen.

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@JanVanHaver mit dem eintippen versuche ich es immer aber das ist auch meistens erfolglos. Ich denke das die Einstellungen von Land zu Land unterschiedlich sind was die Auswahl betrifft. Mit dem Podcast wäre schön aber grundsätzlich lese ich lieber.

Danke vielmals, Annaelisa

Hi Jan

This post inspired me to make 200+ edits to Farrier service businesses in Denmark. I believe I got them all. If not they might be pending.

In the absence of a precise category, the businesses had to add the category in the name field or use odd categories like Smith, Blacksmith, Farm, Metal machinery, Agricultural service, etc. Or no category at all.

I estimate that 95% of the edits got approved immediately.

There might be a ton of this type of edits just waiting to be made in other countries too.

Thanks

Morten

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Aha, so Denmark is covered. I’ll dig into the rest of the world soon @MortenCopenhagen :grin:

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Hi @Annaelisa Ganz hilfreich für Kategorien ist ja die Pleper-Liste, kennst du die? Wenn du dort im Drop-down-Menü bei records per page “All” auswählst, kannst du mit Strg-F ganz einfach die ganze Liste durchsuchen.

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@makky

Danke fĂĽr die Hinweise aber ich bevorzuge fĂĽr alles mein Smartphone auch wegen der Schnelligkeit. Nur die Frage, was ist mit Piper Liste gemeint, dass ist mal wieder ein Begriff der mir nichts sagt.

@Annaelisa ? Ich habs doch verlinkt, nimm doch mal den Hering von den AugenLach & Schwitz Apple 20 .png

Das ist ja ne ganz normale Webseite, die kannst du auch auf dem Handy nach Text durchsuchen.

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@makky

Ich habe den Hering von den Augen genommen und den Link gesehen und benutzt :+1: :blush: . Es ist interessant, vorher dachte ich es bezieht sich auf die PC Anwendung aber mit dem Link geht es prima auf dem Smartphone.

Danke!!!

@JanVanHaver : if possible, place a , between the categories or make a kind of list of them. Now, my screenreader is rattling away all the names, it sometimes feels like "Kartouchke (cfr. morgen maandag =Belgian tv-programme in which this item was shown) is reading the list of categories for me, and it’s a bit difficult to follow. Thanks in advance for considering. I yesterday =19 november found out that “dog café” is also available as category, I could change one poi’s category to that.

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@KattyGeltmeyer the list is copy/pasted from a spreadsheet and it shoys up in the post here on Connect as a table - funny that the screenreader intrepret this as plain text.

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Or I configured my screenreader incorrectly? But if it’s a table, the screenreader should read “column x row y” and this is also an issue when reading something. This info is usefull when you are interacting with tables within excell etc. but not when reading a list. In fact layout is mostly hindering a screenreader: text itself is the main focus of a screenreader.