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by wl 1043 days ago
Some other examples of this kind of thing:

There's a Moorish sovereign citizen group that has a name that is confusingly similar to the US federal government. Their office is labeled a "government office" on Google maps. Every time Google sends me some email telling me about the thousands of people who have been helped by some edit I made years ago, it spurs me to try to correct this location. It's always "not accepted" and it keeps on showing up as a government building. I have no idea what to do at this point, but it seems dangerous to have Google steering people towards a fake government building.

There was also a Kmart that burned down a few years back. Apparently there was a Sears appliance repair service based out of the place. Despite Google having updated aerial and street view imagery showing a fenced, empty lot covered in grass, they never accepted my business no longer exists at this location edits.

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The edits are more likely to be accepted if you provide an on-the-ground photograph (presumably with EXIF data). I've gotten places updated by submitting photos of signage, posted hours, etc.
That makes me want to submit photos of a smoldering crater with modified EXIF data, as proof "the business at this location has been shut down"...
I don't even see a way to submit an explanation for my edits, let alone a photograph. Mobile only?