I added your section; changed the words a tiny bit.
Any other changes to be made?
I think we have had plenty of time for anyone to stop this page, so I propose you make it public now.
Done!
Make it so…
Just wanted to bring to everyone’s attention that “rental car unified” has an issue. You can only link 4 places and unified rental car places “usually” have way more than four. I am duplicating the place to link the rest as an interim solution.
I told Sean to create duplicate place for now so that he can get all the Google Links accounted for.
Both Place Points = IAH Car Rental Center
but each one has up to 4 Google Links with it.
The only other idea I would have is to add the Car Rental names that are linked to the end of the place name. Not really a fan of it
example would be
Place Point #1 = IAH Car Rental Center - National / Payless / Avis / Hertz
Place Point #2 = IAH Car Rental Center - Budget / Firefly
But I agree, we do need to have guidance on this since most (if not all) unified rental facilities will have more the 4 rental companies
I don’t have a better idea for naming. That will work.
I had wondered about maxing out on links. As long as the places have correct info and location, the only downside I see is that there would be two of them in the search, but we live with duplicates from Google in searches anyway.
So name them 1, 2, 3 etc with car companies linked?
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Seems like any distinction would only cause confusion, unless there are different entrances or something. If both places get you to the rental car center, and they’re both in the same spot, they should just be the same. Then users don’t have to wonder “what if rental car center 2 is the wrong one???”
Correct, I was just pointing out that there would be multiple PP. They would actually be identical except the Google Links
Understood. Thanks for clarifying.
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Maybe you could drop a map comment there too in case any well-meaning editor tries to “fix it.” 
I agree that we should update the page with info about this situation.
Will do. Great idea.
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This works well if there are only 4 or less car rental companies in that center. So in the case of more than 4, is there a reason we would not also consider creating a separate point place for each car rental company? I have seen many of the larger centers with separate return lot entrances, so you could then associate the point with the specific entrance, if different.
In a separate discussion, we were talking about terminal names including airlines so they could be searched for larger airports with multiple terminals. We were thinking we could add the airline name as an alternate name for each associated terminal. Then we realized the Alt name list is limited to 4 (interesting coincidence).
So we could use this same logic above. Terminals with 4 or less (major) airlines could get added as alt names, but if more than 4 exists we create individual place points that can be specifically located at the gate entrances.
What do we say about setting the point for departures vs arrivals? Sometimes they are on separate levels above and below each other. If there are separate navigation roads to the separate departure/arrival entrances, do we need separate points for those at each terminal? If we didn’t include the airlines, I would think we at least need something like “SFO Terminal 1 - Arrivals” and “SFO Terminal 1 - Departures”.
This. I hate hate hate the idea of having 2 separate place points for the same thing, just for the sake of Google links. Really bad usability. Using a separate place for each company is a much more sensible way to go.
I would make two alterations. First, I would still include a generic “MSY Rental Car Return” place that is linked to any Google place that might exist for the facility itself.
Second, I would consider naming each company with the company name first, and I’m not sure we need more than just the airport name in them. Probably “Hertz - MSY”, though “Hertz - Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport” could work too.
As for the terminal, I think this is a fine approach as well.
I think this is sort of implied in the guidance but not explicit. I do think this is helpful, and it’s how we’ve done it at MSY (granted, we have only one terminal!).
So my understanding is that if a car rental facility has 4 or less companies then one PP with all links. If there are more than 4 companies then individual PP with rental agency - Airport name Car Rental. This is due to limitations of Google linking.
Sounds good to me
100% agree. That is more consistent with the other place naming guidelines we have been discussing. I assume we could include the longer name as an alt name.
I forgot we already have guidance in the doc for adding additional point places for different terminals including separate arrivals and departures. I think I missed it since the examples did not propose their use. I propose we update with this new table.
I like that table, looks a little easier to follow
I agree.