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I have been using open street map in one of my projects and am considering dropping it. I had the fun experience last week to discover that this was one of the

I have been using open street map in one of my projects and am considering dropping it. I had the fun experience last week to discover that this was one of the cities in north Texas. https://i.imgur.com/BkBcuzN.png https://i.imgur.com/BkBcuzN.png The "Boy's Bathroom Tascosa Drive In" Residents are hopefully not going to look at my app any time soon. I am now a bit concerned about the quality in the states as a whole.

maxerickson 9y ago
So that was identified as vandalism in ~9 days and removed and the user has been banned from editing: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1698922081/history http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1698922081/history http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1652 http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1652 Of course as a practical matter the block only applies to an account rather a person, but it makes the point to the person that the vandalism isn't welcome. I mostly mean to expand on how OSM deals with such things, not to argue whether or not that makes it suitable for your purposes.
tinus_hn 9y ago
It's not like Google is immune from this kind of thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/05/19/if-you-search-google-maps-for-the-n-word-it-gives-you-the-white-house/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/05/19...