diff --git a/include/mapnik/palette.hpp b/include/mapnik/palette.hpp
index 0a0216041..dda682020 100644
--- a/include/mapnik/palette.hpp
+++ b/include/mapnik/palette.hpp
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 MAPNIK_DISABLE_WARNING_PUSH
 #include <mapnik/warning_ignore.hpp>
 #ifdef USE_DENSE_HASH_MAP
-#include <mapnik/sparsehash/dense_hash_map>
+#include <google/dense_hash_map>
 using rgba_hash_table = google::dense_hash_map<unsigned int, unsigned char>;
 #else
 #include <unordered_map>