Question: how to correct a country border?

Since 2018 I’ve been trying to make Google correct (in Maps) a part of the border between the Netherlands and Belgium (near Eijsden and south of Maastricht) that was changed in that year. I’ve submitted numerous edit suggestions, but as there is no option to suggest changes to borders I tried getting their attention through other options with an elaborate explanation. Without any luck, unfortunately.

What is the best way of requesting an update of the border? In my explanations I always linked to official government documents describing the position of the new border (https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBV0006650/2018-01-01 for the international border and https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/prb-2017-5826.html for a (Dutch) municipal border).

Next to that, in someone else’s attempt to make the same correction, a nameless path was named “grenscorrectie” (literally meaning “border correction”) which was probably meant as a comment for the proposed change. For some reason, it was accepted by Google, but my numerous attempts to revert that keep being denied.

Any help with these issues would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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Hi @Thayts

Such data issues are better dealt with in the Maps support forum.

Please attach all the official documents you can to your post in the Maps support forum.

Cheers
Morten

You can also use a Google My Maps to precisely let the experts know where the border should be.

Cheers

Morten

Hi @MortenCopenhagen ,

It seems that there is no way of posting a question there and I’ve already tried the options given there (as explained, without success). That’s why I came here.

Could you perhaps show me where exactly I can post my question?

Thanks.

@Thayts

This us the link directly to the Community :

https://support.google.com/maps/community?hl=en

This is where you make a post. And hopefully one of the volunteer experts will step in and guide you and finally escalate the problem to Google staff. They can do this. That is pretty much the way forward.

Cheers

Morten

@MortenCopenhagen , that was surprisingly hard to find. Thanks for the quick help!

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