While I have seen anecdotal evidence for GMaps monitoring chabges in OSM to keep their data up to date, the only "filling in of Gmaps with OSM" I'm aware of is where they used a government dataset that itself was using the OSM license.
joostjakob
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What's your point?
Because if ya ain't white, you can't be free!
It's not like you have any previous experience with that, three-comments-boy (And all kn this thread)
So now that is in the hands of the folks who use the OSM data. It's in a somewhat exotic tag, so by default any map that uses OSM will still show Gulf of Mexico, unless they actively intervene to show Gulf of America. So if you see an OSM based map showing the latter, you know they made that choice consciously.
Never ever? Have you heard about Black Lives Matter?
Djeez, little quick on the gun, aren't we?
Yeah, an unsourced screenshot is a little light on detail for me. And I'd like to share the story further, but for that I want more context. Also, I'm interested to learn more about this, just because I find it an interesting story..
I could easily find articles on his being in custody, but I didn't find any references for his Trump support. Where should I look?
OpenStreetMap also needs to deal with this kind of thing. In this case, several people already tried to add it to the map in some form of other, but generally not as something to actually be shown. There is a looong discussion about it here https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-of-mexico/124571 . General opinion is that it is (or will be) "the official name that the US says it has". In OSM you can invent tags for anything, so an object can have many names. Done like this, anyone using the data can still choose to give precedence to any "official US names that are not in common use yet". Later it may be upgraded ased on if it becomes a common alternative name, just in the US, or maybe beyond. All those options can have their own special tag. And only very motivated data users will ever show it to map users. But if you do a search for Gulf of America, you will be able to find it.
It's generous to call that an article. Just a bunch of "some folks said on X" quotes. Doesn't really belong in this community IMHO
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