How to: suggest a change to Windows 10 Maps

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What happens when you head confidently into Windows 10 Maps, as I did this afternoon, searching for a particular destination, and it's not there?! In my case, I wanted IKEA in Calcot, near Reading, but it didn't come up. The answer, of course, is that the store is new, only being built last year, though I was still surprised that no one had thought to add it. So I did it myself - and hopefully Microsoft's approval process won't take more than a couple of weeks*.

* There has to be an approval process, of course, with miscreants doing unmentionable things to Google Maps in the past!

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So you've a place, a point of interest - often a major store or landmark or similar - that's missing in Windows Maps. Head into the '...' menu and tap on 'Suggest a change', followed by 'A place is missing'.

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The form that gets presented is fairly obvious, but you do get the chance to set the right location for the new place exactly, on the map itself; (right) finish the form and 'Submit' and, with a bit of luck, your addition will make it into the Maps databases within a few weeks.

Comments welcome if you've ever done this and seen your addition or correction added - how long did it take? For comparison, I did this sort of thing on Google Maps recently and it took about a month.