{"id":16973,"date":"2014-07-31T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16973"},"modified":"2014-07-31T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:36:01","slug":"google-mapmaker-nukes-custom-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/google-mapmaker-nukes-custom-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Google MapMaker Nukes Custom Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Custom categories, long missing from Google Maps, had retained their presence in MapMaker. \u00a0That distinction has now ended. MapMaker has <a href=\"https:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!msg\/map-maker\/Pt7N0aaDTsM\/6c7-76SohmMJ\">announced<\/a> the end of custom categories and that MapMaker would now use the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/categories-in-the-new-places-for-business-dashboard\/\">standard 2500+ categories<\/a> that have been available to My Business and Maps.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hello Mappers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Firstly, a BIG thanks for your continued support to improve Google Maps!<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Google Map Maker offers you a detailed menu to add the most relevant category by providing a wide range of 2500+ categories to choose from. While we continue to expand this list, we\u2019ve removed the ability to manually type-in the category of your choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Henceforth, any existing free-form categories will <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">only be visible to the mapper who originally created them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Once again, your understanding and patience is tremendously appreciated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Thanks, and Happy Mapping!<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #222222; padding-left: 30px;\">Sneha<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Custom categories, long missing from Google Maps, had retained their presence in MapMaker. \u00a0That distinction has now ended. MapMaker has announced the end of custom categories and that MapMaker would now use the standard 2500+ categories that have been available to My Business and Maps. Hello Mappers, Firstly, a BIG thanks for your continued support &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-googlelocal-categories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16974,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973\/revisions\/16974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}