Hi, are the Dome of The Rock, Al Aqsa, Church of Holy Sepulchre, Tower of David, Tomb of the Virgin, and many more places located in Jerusalem Israel? Why Google is displaying wrong information on its map?
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Sad but no one gonna be answer this one in fact no actual answer for this. we all know what can be the reason.
Hi, @RashidJorvee
If you think that Google Maps had shown wrong information, you can send them feedback.
Here’s how: Steps to send us feedback
Good luck!
FYI, could you all moderators help me to get this fixed on Map? @DeniGu @TiffanyBnyc @ErmesT @TraciC @HallieM @Connie-NYC @mchomsky @izzyp223
As you can see in the link in Google Maps searching for Palestine, “Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a de jure sovereign state in Western Asia”.
According to Wikipedia, “de jure states are sometimes recognised as being the legitimate government of a territory over which they have no actual control.” It means that it is, in fact, a contended area, and Google is extremely careful in making changes in contended area (in many cases, it is also not possible to edit a place in a contended area.
In addition, Local Guides cannot moves a location from a state to another. This kind of changes can only made by the team.
For this reason I suggest you to report the issue in the Google Maps Help Community instead of the Local Guides community.
I would like to remind you also to tag moderators, and not every Googler. They will not respond to you. For more details please read: Who are the moderators on Connect?
Hi @ErmesT thank you for your reply. I understand that those territories are de-facto, but de-facto doesn’t give even complete control to the state who are controlling the area with their army. So my simple suggestion is that why we need to add country name for those places and streets, cant it be enough just to recognize those places with the name of city. If you will search the same in TomTom GPS map, you will see there is a Palestine state similar to any other states like America, Netherlands, Germany, but not in Google Maps.
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I can’t respond on behalf of Google, @RashidJorvee , but what I see is that, being Google Maps the biggest digital maps of the world, they are very careful about “contended” areas.
You can of course always suggest a change. Idea exchange is the right place where to do it.
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