How to get 19th-century Prussian placenames in place of birth to display properly in both WT+ Maps and Google Maps?

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Good morning.

Is there a trick to get 19th-century Prussian placenames in place of birth to display properly in both WT+ Maps and Google Maps?

I have ancestors who emigrated from Prussia in the 1840s and 1850s from places that I believe are presently in western Poland, but were in the Prussian provinces of Brandenburg and Posen when they left.

Some of them yield believable results when I click the Google Maps point on the profile next to the placename, but are quite wrong if I use the profile menu/Tree Apps/WT+ MAPS.

For example a birth place of "Klemzig, Züllichau-Schwiebus, Brandenburg, Prussia", clicking on the pin Google offers me three choices (Klemzig, South Australia;Sulechow/Zullichau in Poland and Swiebodzin/Schwiebus in Poland). WT+ yields a dot west of Berlin, possibly the geometric centre of modern Brandenburg.

Ideally, I'd like to enter their placenames in a way that renders a dot close to the right place from both the profile pin and the WT+ app. I'm looking for a structure or naming convention that might make this possible.
in Policy and Style by Scott Davis G2G6 Mach 3 (38.4k points)
Scott, Can you add an example profile so that other people can see this for themselves?

Oops. The example I used above was from Johanne Louissa (Petras) Fliegert (1820 - 1896)

Krollig-5 born at Lomnitz, Meseritz, Posen, Preußen shows up between Dresden and Nurnberg is another example.

Klingner-4 born at Semmelwitz, Silesia, Prussia isn't found at all on Google Maps, and shown in the middle of Germany of WT+ - I think it could be Zębowice, Lower SIlesian Voivodeship in Poland.

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For experiment
 I added "now Klępsk, Zielona Góra, Lubuskie, Polska" to the profile Petras-26. 
Does this work?

by Steve Thomas G2G6 Pilot (123k points)
Similar outcome from the Google Pin; still waiting for the WT+ data copy to be updated to try it there.
I will wait to see what WT+ does in the next week.

I am interested that different language Wikipedia pages for the same place are very different.
The English page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C4%99psk does not say a lot and does not mention Klemzig.
The Polish page https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C4%99psk and German page https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kl%C4%99psk are more consistent with each other.

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