That’s a five year old video.

Security services use things like airgapping, but our politicians talk to each other using WhatsApp…

Have a look at RouteYou and Wikiloc

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.

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.

Colombian

Someone should invent a game, that while playing demonstrates how much monopolies suck for everyone involved (except the monopolist)

The mapcomplete.org/notes theme does that, and has some other fun features as well

OpenStreetMap offers so many new things to learn :) Here’s an example overpass query for myself: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1FG7 Just move the map to you area of interest, and in the code change the “user” to your username. Then click “Run” (or something similar, depending on the language). You can change the “way” part to “node” or “nwr” to extract different types of data. Or you can add [“building”] to just show buildings you last touched. Minor warning is that this shows things you were the last to edit. So if someone else is active in your area, your edits will disappear. If you’ve been active for a while, but only see your recent changes, we can add (newer:“2023-01-01T00:00:00Z”) near the username.

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr is really pretty self-explanatory. It is similar to Google MyMaps, but built by the OSM community. A beginner’s guide is available here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap/Guide

You could manually draw polygons in a umap to do this. Or you could use an Overpass Turbo query to show all the ways you edited recently to have a visual of where you have and haven’t worked. I can give you some queries to start with if you like.

I’m seeing similar numbers for daily mappers, not monthly.

Where does Gmaps use OSM data? Only case I know is (IIRC) kind of accidentally through a Polish bus company whose schedule uses OSM data