How do you organize your list?

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Hi guys,

:thinking: How do you manage/organize your Lists in Google Maps?

For example, i have around 300 saved local places and i create lists per country (Vietnam, Japan, …). I have also 150 local places in Want to go but it’s more of a placeholder.

I’d love to get your opinion as i haven’t really found a good way to do so :sweat_smile: .

Cheers :wave:

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Hi @MapMapJulien ,

Please let us know what you mean by manage/organize? Some edit functionalities are only available in apps. And you find your lists under Your Places and then select Saved.

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Hi @MapMapJulien

First this is the official guide for create list on Maps : Create a list of places

Inside here on Connect we have some great posts:

4 tips for creating better lists

How to create & share lists of places on Google Maps

Making Great Lists on Google Maps!!!

How to make great restaurant lists on Google Maps

How to create great lists of your city’s best shops

Hope this can help you!

If you need more information fell free to ask !

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@MortenCopenhagen You are right and i updated the text so that it is clearer. I’d love to get your opinion if you have any on this topic!

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Hi @MapMapJulien ,

@Saiyen gave you great links to follow. But I also have to admit that I have not found any hugely useful ways to use lists. Here are the two uses that I tend to use most:

Travel planning. When researching where I would like to visit, eat or get entertained before visiting a new city, I find lists can be useful. Also when figuring out how to get from the airport to my hotel using public transport. It nice to have the different places easily at hand.

Spam follow up. When I try to fix a business listing having stuffed keywords in their name, or capital letters or some location search terms I will save them to my GMB challenge list. That makes it easy to do a quick follow up later to see if more needs to be done. Here I also use the notes fields. Unfortunately there are quite a few persistent rule violates in some business categories like locksmiths, movers and car rental companies. Also app based bike rental services are misusing the map. And some pins have been on that list for way too long now :thinking:

Was this the kind of feedback you wanted?

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Yep, totally. When you start asking questions about practices, you often discover new things. Thanks Morten for the insight!

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@Saiyen Thanks for the link. In fact a key question i have is… have Googlers built the feature for GMaps users to create list for others or for GMaps users to manage their own list? It’s seem to me that they create it for the forst intent whereas naturally people will use the feature to build list for them (my assumption). Can a Googler provide feedback on this?

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Hi @MapMapJulien ,

Thank you for your question.

Please take a look at the Create a list of places article. There you will find that the varieties to manage your list are two. You can either choose to hide it or to share it to be visible for others.

You can also follow others’ lists.

If you’d like to tag a Google Moderator, choose from the listed here, thanks.