The pace of my “new catgories” posts here on Connect is typically once every 2-3 months or so. And that pace simply depends on the availability of new categories, which I check from time to time to see if the number of new entries is worth reporting on. So, with the previous post containing a list of newly added categories now dating back to August 2021 (with a small update in September) you might start to wonder “Did Google stop adding categories?”.
The answer is obviously no, as this is the next post in the series 
But the number of new categories is clearly quite limited compared to what we saw e.g. early 2021, when 46 categories were added with another 25 following a mere month later. Today’s list is much shorter, with only 9 entries (and not all of them available in most languages):
| Arab restaurant |
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| Cupra dealer |
| Dumpster rental service |
| Funeral celebrant service |
| General education school |
| Scenography company |
| Secondary school |
| Space of remembrance |
| Vehicle wrapping service |
The last one on the list was already published in November 2021 and I actually covered that in a separate post already. Some others could be referred to as ‘business as usual’: another restaurant type (Arab restaurant) and another branded car dealer (Cupra dealer - Cupra used to be known as SEAT Sport). We’ve seen those types of categories being added frequently in the past couple of years (you can find the links to all posts decribing this in detail in the overview post). Quite useful, if you ask me, are Dumpster rental service (Iin my area there definitely are some businesses who have this as their main activity) and Funeral celebrant service (as more and more funerals are now taking place in a non-religious setting).
I’m not sure what to think of Scenography company. Scenography is the design and painting of theatrical scenery and I really wonder if that much companies are doing this to justify adding a category for it on Maps. Please do add your feedback in the comments if you can shed some extra light here. What could be a very useful one is Space of remembrance, but unfortunately it is not available in any other language, so most of us will need to keep using the translated equivalent of Heritage preservation or Cultural landmark.
And then there are the two education-related catergories: Secondary school and General education school. You might think “Surely we had those already?”. The answer there is both yes and no. “Secondary school” was already there as the international English term for the US English Middle school, but this newly added one is actually Secondary school in the US English list with no entry in the international English list - which is also the case for the category Primary school. Perhaps this is connected to the way the educational system is organized in Germany, as the new category does have a German translation (Weiterführende Schule) - I will have to dig deeper into the entire education category situation and then write a post on it in the Categories Explained (?) series, which deals with confusing (use of) categories.